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To many researchers the ultimate goal of organ printing is to create organs that can be fully integrated into the human body. [1] Successful organ printing has the potential to impact several industries, notably artificial organs organ transplants , [ 2 ] pharmaceutical research, [ 3 ] and the training of physicians and surgeons .
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Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.
An artificial organ is a human-made organ device or tissue that is implanted or integrated into a human – interfacing with living tissue – to replace a natural organ, to duplicate or augment a specific function or functions so the patient may return to a normal life as soon as possible. [1]
In 2012, Xiaoping Ren published work in which he grafted the head of a mouse onto another mouse's body; again the focus was on how to avoid harm from the loss of blood supply; with his protocol the grafted heads survived up to six months. [1] In 2013, Sergio Canavero published a protocol that he said would make human head transplantation possible.
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organs may be transported from a donor site to another location.
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The first physician to perform a successful human bone marrow transplant was Robert A. Good. With the availability of the stem cell growth factors GM-CSF and G-CSF , most hematopoietic stem cell transplantation procedures are now performed using stem cells collected from the peripheral blood , rather than from the bone marrow.