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Organ donor designation on Saudi driving licences approved
gulfnews.com Manama: Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council has agreed to allow men and women to be designated organ donors on their driving licence or on their national identification. A growing number of Saudis are becoming more aware of the importance of organ donation … |
East Anglian Daily Times |
Appeal for eye donors in Suffolk and Essex this World Sight Day amid cornea shortages
East Anglian Daily Times Health bosses are using this World Sight Day to urge people in Suffolk and Essex to agree to donating their eyes after death amid a national shortage of transplant supplies. NHS Blood and Transplant’s eye banks, which are in Bristol and Manchester, are … |
The ScientistMassive Transcription Catalog Outlines the Influence of Human Genetic VariationThe ScientistThe GTEx consortium therefore collected more than 7,000 samples, representing 44 different tissues from hundreds of recently deceased donors. RNA w…
Nature.com |
Gene-expression study raises thorny ethical issues
Nature.com Ronald’s myriad tissues, and those of almost 1,000 other anonymous deceased donors, are now the basis of a first-of-its-kind database. Supported by the US National Institutes of Health, the US$150-million Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project is … Massive Transcription Catalog Outlines the Influence of Human Genetic VariationThe Scientist |
Nature.comGene-expression study raises thorny ethical issues : Nature News …Nature.comProject obtains tissues from recently deceased individuals to look for the origins of disease.Massive Transcription Catalog Outlines the Influence of Human Genetic …
Nature.comA more personal view of human-gene regulationNature.comTo do so, project scientists needed a framework to consider ethical, legal and social issues that surround post-mortem donation (as discussed in a News story on page 169). Research on sam…
The Star |
Opt-out donor register a ‘no-brainer’ say transplant patients from …
The Star The public are due to be consulted later this year about switching to an opt-out donor register in England, which is already in place in Wales and being … |
Herald SunCoburg physiotherapist runs in Medibank Melbourne Marathon Festival after lifesaving lung transplantHerald SunAbout 50 Australians die every year waiting for a transplant. Only 20 per cent of Victorian adults have recorded their decision to b…
Winston-Salem Journal |
Wake Forest Baptist gets $10 million for kidney donor research to aid recipients’ survival
Winston-Salem Journal Determining why kidneys donated from deceased black donors fail more rapidly than those from deceased white donors is the focus of two federal $5 million grants received by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers. The grants from the National … |
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New report offers framework for research on organ transplantation
Medical Xpress “This report seeks to enable organ donor intervention research to move forward in a manner that ensures dignity and respect for deceased organ donors and their families and is within appropriate ethical, legal, and regulatory limits to save more lives, … |