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Sixty people coordinated the largest-ever organ exchange.

Let’s say your cousin needs a kidney. You agree to provide one. But you’re not a match. No problem: an organ registry finds somebody who is a match for you, and somebody who’s already agreed to provide a kidney to that person is a match for your cousin. So you swap kidneys, and both people […]

Posted byWaldo JaquithFebruary 18, 2012Posted inShortLinksTags: kidney, medicine, organ
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