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As organ transplant science advances, its biggest hurdles are increasingly logistical ones—such as securing a flight and navigating through traffic fast enough to deliver an organ before it ...

Exploring the relationship between cancer cells and nerve cells, which can signal tumors to grow, could unearth ways to slow disease.