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Private Venus Mission Plans to Retrieve Cloud Samples for Life Research
A privately-led space mission is being developed to retrieve and analyse cloud samples from Venus. Scientists believe the planet’s sulfuric acid clouds might sustain organic molecules necessary for life. The mission, named Morning Star, involves deploying probes to collect mist from Venus' atmosphere. The collected samples would be returned to Ea...
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5-Day-Old Infant's Organs Give New Lease Of Life To 3 Other Children In Gujarat
Organs retrieved from a 5-day-old brain-dead infant in Surat city of Gujarat have given a fresh lease of life to three children who received his kidneys and liver.
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Asteroid Discovery Suggests Ingredients for Life on Earth Came From Space
Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago. Scientists said on Tuesday they detected uracil and niacin in rocks obtained by the Japanese Sp...
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Water Drop Discovered on Ryugu Asteroid Offers Clues to Origins of Life on Earth
A water drop discovered on specks of dust from Ryugu, an asteroid close to Earth, has offered new support for the theory that life on the planet was seeded from outer space. The sample of the asteroid retrieved by the Hayabusa-2 probe has already showed that some of the building blocks of life on Earth, amino acids, may have been formed in space. T...
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Alliance Air Delays Flight To Wait For "Retrieved Organs To Save Four Lives"
Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, delayed one of its flights to Delhi from Jaipur by 30 minutes on Saturday as it waited for a team of doctors who were transporting harvested organs donated by a woman to save four lives in the national capital.
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Man Injured In Durga Puja Accident Saves Six Lives By Donating Organs
A private hospital in Kolkata has retrieved the heart, liver, kidneys and corneas of a young male donor, declared brain dead and transplanted to six different people.
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Doctors Focus On Need For Faster Organ Retrieval
Dr Priyadarshi Ranjan, a kidney transplant surgeon of Mohali's Fortis hospital explains that time plays a crucial role for the transplant because the organ can be preserved only for a short span of time.
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Heart, Liver Of Brain Dead Youth Gives New Life To 2
A 21-year-old youth, who was declared brain dead, gave a fresh lease of life to two patients by donating his heart and liver.
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42-Year-Old Man, Declared Brain Dead, Becomes 9th Cadaver Donor at AIIMS
A 42-year-old man, who was declared brain dead at a private hospital in New Delhi, has become the ninth cadaver donor at AIIMS.
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What grocery receipts reveal about al-Qaeda
More than 100 receipts and invoices retrieved from a building occupied by al-Qaeda's North African branch in Timbuktu, Mali show an organization intent on documenting even the most minor expenses.
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Helicopter crash kills 3, puts transplant on hold
A helicopter that was on its way to retrieve a heart for transplant crashed in northern Florida, killing all three on board and leaving the transplant patient having to wait for another organ to become available.
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4-day-old infant becomes youngest donor
For the first time in the country, doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad harvested organs from a four-day-old baby girl on Tuesday, making the infant, whose heart valves and eyes were retrieved, the country's youngest organ donor ever.
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Private Venus Mission Plans to Retrieve Cloud Samples for Life Research
A privately-led space mission is being developed to retrieve and analyse cloud samples from Venus. Scientists believe the planet’s sulfuric acid clouds might sustain organic molecules necessary for life. The mission, named Morning Star, involves deploying probes to collect mist from Venus' atmosphere. The collected samples would be returned to Ea...
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5-Day-Old Infant's Organs Give New Lease Of Life To 3 Other Children In Gujarat
Organs retrieved from a 5-day-old brain-dead infant in Surat city of Gujarat have given a fresh lease of life to three children who received his kidneys and liver.
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Asteroid Discovery Suggests Ingredients for Life on Earth Came From Space
Two organic compounds essential for living organisms have been found in samples retrieved from the asteroid Ryugu, buttressing the notion that some ingredients crucial for the advent of life arrived on Earth aboard rocks from space billions of years ago. Scientists said on Tuesday they detected uracil and niacin in rocks obtained by the Japanese Sp...
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Water Drop Discovered on Ryugu Asteroid Offers Clues to Origins of Life on Earth
A water drop discovered on specks of dust from Ryugu, an asteroid close to Earth, has offered new support for the theory that life on the planet was seeded from outer space. The sample of the asteroid retrieved by the Hayabusa-2 probe has already showed that some of the building blocks of life on Earth, amino acids, may have been formed in space. T...
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Alliance Air Delays Flight To Wait For "Retrieved Organs To Save Four Lives"
Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, delayed one of its flights to Delhi from Jaipur by 30 minutes on Saturday as it waited for a team of doctors who were transporting harvested organs donated by a woman to save four lives in the national capital.
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Man Injured In Durga Puja Accident Saves Six Lives By Donating Organs
A private hospital in Kolkata has retrieved the heart, liver, kidneys and corneas of a young male donor, declared brain dead and transplanted to six different people.
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Doctors Focus On Need For Faster Organ Retrieval
Dr Priyadarshi Ranjan, a kidney transplant surgeon of Mohali's Fortis hospital explains that time plays a crucial role for the transplant because the organ can be preserved only for a short span of time.
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Heart, Liver Of Brain Dead Youth Gives New Life To 2
A 21-year-old youth, who was declared brain dead, gave a fresh lease of life to two patients by donating his heart and liver.
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42-Year-Old Man, Declared Brain Dead, Becomes 9th Cadaver Donor at AIIMS
A 42-year-old man, who was declared brain dead at a private hospital in New Delhi, has become the ninth cadaver donor at AIIMS.
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What grocery receipts reveal about al-Qaeda
More than 100 receipts and invoices retrieved from a building occupied by al-Qaeda's North African branch in Timbuktu, Mali show an organization intent on documenting even the most minor expenses.
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Helicopter crash kills 3, puts transplant on hold
A helicopter that was on its way to retrieve a heart for transplant crashed in northern Florida, killing all three on board and leaving the transplant patient having to wait for another organ to become available.
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4-day-old infant becomes youngest donor
For the first time in the country, doctors at a hospital in Hyderabad harvested organs from a four-day-old baby girl on Tuesday, making the infant, whose heart valves and eyes were retrieved, the country's youngest organ donor ever.
