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United Network for Organ Sharing
This nonprofit charitable organization maintains the nation's organ transplant waiting list under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Includes a fact sheet,...
National Institutes of Health
U.s. National Library of Medicine: Profiles in Science: Adrian Kantrowitz Papers
Adrian Kantrowitz's life and scientific accomplishments are chronicled and catalogued in this extensive exhibition. Kantrowitz was famous for performing the first heart transplant in the United States, and for the life-saving inventions...
Texas A&M University
Peer Curricula: Story Time: Peter Medawar
The biographies in the PEER Curricula site emphasize the early life of scientists and how they developed their interests. This biography of Peter Medawar is no exception. His teachers were important mentors in his life and led to his...
Other
Be the Match
Resource about the bone marrow donor program provides informaiton at marrow transplants for patients with aplastic anemia, leukemia, and other illnesses. You can learn about this program, how to help and find real life stories.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Printing a Human Kidney
Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient...
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Hall of Fame Biographies: Christian Neethling Barnard
A concise biography of Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001), the famous surgeon who did the first heart transplant. Learn about his early life, education, and his learning process of performing heart transplants.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: Genetic Engineering & Xenotransplantation
In efforts to cure some cases of Type I diabetes scientists are considering xenotransplantation. With this practice, islets from animals other than human are transplanted into humans. With further studies scientists will discover...
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Searching for a Substitute
This article on the history and development of the artificial heart examines past attempts at artificial heart transplant and looks at future research and development.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Gertrude Elion
Learn about a the scientist who won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work in the scientific discovery of drugs to treat leukemia and herpes, and to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants.
PBS
Pbs: Christiaan Barnard
This site, which is provided for by PBS, gives an article about Christian Barnard's heart transplant accomplishments.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Cloning of Human Body Parts
Find out if cloning human body parts for the purpose of transplant is possible in this interactive worksheet. Read the information, and then hover the mouse over review questions to reveal the answers.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Alien Invasion: Unwanted Travel Partners
Perform an experiment to observe inadvertent transfer of organisms when new fish are transplanted into tropical aquariums. Apply this knowledge to explain how alien species can rapidly destroy the established ecological balance in an...
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: End Stage Renal Disease
This is the thorough overview of end-stage renal disease that includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and more.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is Leukemia?
Stem cells found in the bone marrow are crucial for our health because they are needed to become new blood cells that sustain and protect our bodies. But when the transformation goes wrong, harmful mutations can cause the cells to start...
PBS
Nova: Electric Heart
NOVA chronicles the story of a handful of brilliant surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades. The website contains a wonderful map of the human heart, amazing heart facts,...
PBS
Online News Hour: Organ Donation
The resource is a health spotlight special report on organ donation. Learners hover their mouse over an illustration to determine how many people are waiting for organ donations. Articles on the perspective of religion and how to become...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Brain: Teaching Modules
A collection of 32 video learning modules on everything to do with the brain.
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Merck Manual: Non Hodgkin's Lymphomas
Visit this website for some in-depth information regarding non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. The article gives details about the incidence rate; the classification system of lymphoma; the difference between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and...
Other
U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: Donate the Gift of Life
Use this resource to learn about the need for life-saving organ donations. Also find statistics on donors and recipients. Includes video.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Medline Search
Search of National Library of Medicine for all current research articles on a specific topic. Students must enter key words in the search box. Results are abstracts of research articles.
Texas A&M University
Story Time: Discover Scientists' Biographies
Read very accessible biographies of thirteen scientists in many fields including medicine, paleontology, genetics, chemistry, physiology, marine biology, microbiology, biochemistry, and natural selection. Emphasis is on the scientists'...
Library of Congress
Loc: Migration During the Great Depression: Living History
Most people in Central Florida came from somewhere else. Young scholars first analyze life histories from American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940 to learn oral history techniques. They then...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Predicting White Blood Counts
Students find equations, which best-fit the data, using different regression models built into their calculators. The best method of handling this data, is to break the data into sections and fit different periods of time with different...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Farnese Hercules
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art this page details the Renaissance engraving of the "Farnese Hercules" by the transplanted Dutchamn to italy Jacob Bos in the 16th century; with a description and images of the engraving.