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Biography

Name: George David Snell
Birth Date: December 19, 1903
Death Date: June 6, 1996
Place of Birth: Bradford, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Bel Harbor, Maine, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: immunogeneticist

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Biography of George David Snell
1,036 words, approx. 4 pages
Geneticist George David Snell's pioneering research on the immune system in the 1930s and 1940s enabled medical science to develop the process of organ transplantation. Through skin grafts performed on mice at the Jackson Hole Laboratory, he discovered...
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Biography of George David Snell
1,008 words, approx. 3 pages
Geneticist George David Snell's pioneering research on the immune system in the 1930s and 1940s enabled medical science to develop the process of organ transplantation. Through skin grafts performed on mice at the Jackson Hole Laboratory, Snell...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Transplant, Surgical Summary
1,455 words, approx. 5 pages
Stories of transplanted tissue and body parts go far back in myth and legend. Chinese folklore tells of organ transplants; in the sixth century A.D., the Western patron saints of medicine, Cosmos and Damian, supposedly replaced the cancerous leg of a...
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Organ Transplants Summary
1,322 words, approx. 4 pages
From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, organ transplantation has advanced radically to become one of the greatest technological achievements in medicine. As of the early twenty-first century, doctors have successfully transplanted six...
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Transplantation Genetics Summary
868 words, approx. 3 pages
There are several different types of transplantation. An autograft is a graft from one part of the body to another site on the same individual. An isograft is one between individuals that are genetically alike, as in identical twins. An allograft is a...
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Heart Transplantation Summary
27,510 words, approx. 92 pages
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Organ transplant Information
6,155 words, approx. 21 pages
An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patient's own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. Organ...
 


News and Journals
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Evening Standard - London
Organ transplanted
09/25/2001: 317 words, approx. 1 pages
JOEY DEFRANCESCO TRIO ** Ronnie Scott's Club JOEY DeFrancesco found himself a jazzman in distress last night, a keyboarder in urgent need of an organ transplant. Booked in for a week with his all-American trio, he had played only 10 minutes of his...
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The Boston Globe
Organ Transplant
05/08/2005: 438 words, approx. 2 pages
Boston's Symphony Hall, built in 1900, is rated one of the three great music halls in the world from the point of view of acoustics. The other two are in Vienna and Amsterdam. A fourth, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, was destroyed in World...
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AP Features
China to Tighten Organ Transplant Rules
11/27/2006: 278 words, approx. 1 pages
China will tighten its organ transplant rules to prevent unqualified doctors and profit-hungry hospitals from abusing patients, state media said Monday, amid concerns that executed prisoners have had their organs harvested without consent. The draft regulation, which has been sent...
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AP News
NY baby undergoes 5-organ transplant
8/25/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages
An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step _ learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.Elijah Moulton is doing well after receiving a liver, small bowel, pancreas, colon and stomach during...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Viewpoint on Organ Transplants
32,246 words, approx. 108 pages
"Despite continuing advances in medicine and technology, the demand for organs drastically outstrips the number of organ donors," states a United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) fact sheet. UNOS is a nonprofit charitable organization that, under the...
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 96%
A Heart for a Heart: Life without Donors
2,009 words, approx. 7 pages
Essay provides a discussion about the alternative choices available for heart transplants.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Australian Organ and Tissue Transplantation
1,722 words, approx. 6 pages
Siscusses the current state of organ and tissue doation in Austrailia. Proposes replacing the current system with an opt out system.


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