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to be involved in this thing.
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If you look for any particular kidney transplants,
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there are currently as of yesterday 75,000 individuals in the U.S.
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waiting for donor kidneys;
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in the liver there are 16,000.
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These are patients that today need an organ donation,
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their physicians have decided that they're too sick
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to respond to any other treatment
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and they're just waiting for an organ to appear.
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I talked--in the very first lecture you might remember,
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I showed you this picture to talk about--there's already very high
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technology involved with this medical effort.