#transplant

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#about #along #behaviour #cloning #computer

I’d always imagined that I’d come up with something clever and pithy when it came to my last words, but as I stood there staring at those horrifying green eyes, I settled for a little startled profanity. How embarrassing. ↗

— Kate SeRine

#red #transplanted-tales #imagination

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

— Christiaan Barnard

#bury #devoured #heart #infinitely #than

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. ↗

— Ian Smith

#had #humans #into #many #organs

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. ↗

— Leonard Bailey

#awesome responsibility #caretakers #chance #involved #more

Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#bone #bone marrow #donor #every #families

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex. ↗

— Adam Ant

#complex #heart #how #learned #like

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born. ↗

— David Baltimore

#allow #beings #born #call #cloning

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile. ↗

— Loretta Ellsworth

#life #loss #love #relationships #transplant