Organ Transplantation Quotes

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Stem cell research has the greatest promise of any scientific development.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.

Stem cell research can revolutionize medicine, more than anything since antibiotics.

What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.

Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them.

If an organ is somehow severed from its body, it will shrivel and die. It cannot exist on its own, and neither can you. Disconnected and cut off from the lifeblood of a local body, your spiritual life will wither and eventually cease to exist.

I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

As a child, I had no interest in science whatsoever - then I started writing and recognized how relevant it was. My first book about science and medicine captured the world of organ transplantation in 1989 from the points of view of all of the participants - scientists, surgeons, social workers, organ recipients and even donor families.

Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.

Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled 'incurable.'

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

I always wondered about that woman who had that face transplant. If you went to bed with her, would that technically count as a threesome?

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it.

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.