Notes from a Transplant Surgeon (originally aired on August 25, 2020)
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Guest: Joshua Mezrich, Associate Professor, Surgery, and Surgical Director, Living Donor Kidney Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; and author, \\u201cWhen Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon\\u201d
As a new transplant surgeon, Dr. Mezrich was afraid to approach the donor's family, but they welcomed him enthusiastically. The spiritual and physical aspects of giving new life from tragedy through transplant surgery.
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Lab-Grown Organs
Guest: Jens Puschhof, PhD candidate, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Growing organic tissue in the lab helps researchers understand and treat diseases and cancer, and, in an exciting step forward, researchers in the Netherlands recently replicated venomous snake glands."