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This Project Aims To Overcome Shortage Of Donor Organs

This Project Aims To Overcome Shortage Of Donor Organs

In a bid to give a big push for research in tissue engineering and overcome the problems of donor organ shortages, India’s Department of Biotechnology has invited “concept proposals” from Indian scientists for regeneration of heart, liver, pancreas, skin, tooth, eye and bone — complete with muscle, tendon and marrow

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Is Cadaver Donation In North-Eastern States A Distant Reality?

Is Cadaver Donation In North-Eastern States A Distant Reality?

As of date, not even a single Cadaver Donation has taken place in all the eight states of North Eastern region. Though the state performs transplant from living donors, like kidney, lung or cornea however, there is no data to show the number of such organ transplants in the region. Experts say currently, North Eastern regions are at the starting phase of organ donation which is education and awareness

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