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From body parts and meat, we explore the strangest ... “But the team have now grown an organ that forms all the cell types normally present in the human kidney.” By adding different ...

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Meanwhile, the clock is ticking; organs last only so long outside the body. So, sometimes, officials make exceptions: If an organ is at risk of becoming unusable, they ignore the rankings and ...