It is a realm of Being with its own characteristics, its own laws, and to which we have access by an organ of cognition appropriate to just this realm.
Research published last week shows 96% of people would accept an organ if in need of one, yet only a fraction of that number are signed up to donate.
The group believes that this idea would "open up the possibility of becoming an organ donor to a much wider range of people".
Using magnetic resonance imaging, it may be possible soon to take a picture of an internal organ and create a virtual tour of it.
She is an advocate of organ donation and travels to deliver speeches about her experience.
Though thousands of genes are involved in the development of an organ such as a tooth, these genes are switched on in a cascade, with the activity of one triggering the activation of the next.
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Prosecutors are investigating an organ donor scandal in the east German city of Leipzig in which doctors allegedly manipulated an organ waiting list.
Pancreatitis is an inflammation of the organ as these fluids start damaging the organ itself.
University of Wisconsin scientists have isolated the gene that controls the development of an organ's shape in the roundworm.
An organ's thousands of flue and reed pipes are organized by timbre in numerous ranks that can be registered in myriad combinations.
In Japan, men have about a 41 percent lifetime risk of developing cancer of an organ while a woman's lifetime risk is about 29 percent.
The biggest online donor spike the state has ever seen came when Oprah did a segment about an organ donor a couple of years ago, when more than 700 people registered in a single day.
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This means that users who are interested in a particular function or part of an organ can import this information from another model over the web, and incorporate it into their own models using their own programming language.
Science fiction has this great sense of an organ filling a cathedral: you've got three keyboards, not just one, you've got stops you can pull out, there's an extra keyboard under your feet, you can start playing that as well!
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The Welsh Government has commissioned Beaufort Research to carry out a qualitative survey of people's attitudes to an opt-out system of organ donation which comes to some striking - and perhaps counterintuitive - conclusions about this very issue.
I've been pondering the other shortlisted authors' styles - Ishiguro's prose was also very deliberate and spare, but with the effect of creating an Enid Blytonesque tale of cloning and organ harvesting.
An average of three patients die every day in the UK while waiting to receive an organ and more than 10, 000 people are currently in need of a transplant, figures reveal.
The Forum was established in order to act as an organ for ensuring the preservation of audiovisual collections for future generations.
Their argument is that legislation won't improve your chances of having an organ donation and in fact, it could make things worse.
These sites work as switches activating one biochemical pathway when they encounter the chemical signals of infectious agents, and a different one when they meet with those of an interloper organ.
Dr Hunter and his colleague Bruce Smaill have done the research that has allowed Dr Noble and Dr Winslow to knit their equations for single cells into a model of an entire organ.
Each NHS Trust in England is to appoint an organ donation champion to discuss organ donation with families as part of all end of life care where appropriate.
The heart is an organ that can give quantitative data of quality.
And on Thursday, his attorney said he had been an activist in the field of organ and tissue donation that stemmed from his work at that hospital.
Under the proposed legislation, a person would be deemed to have agreed to be an organ donor, unless they opted out of the system.
Cole had been on what she called "a very long list" of people waiting for an organ donation when she got word recently that OneLegacy, an organ procurement agency in Southern California, had a kidney that was a biological match.
Whatever the procedure needed, from the fixing of an ingrown toenail to an organ transplant, Apollo can deliver.
Pop star David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, has turned the inside of a defunct ferry terminal into a giant musical instrument, retrofitting an antique organ and wiring it to the pipes, the beams, and even the plumbing of the Battery Maritime Building.
Of course, anybody who needs an new organ to survive would go through such an ordeal over and over again.
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But being a heart transplant patient comes with the extra challenge of getting the organ to beat at an acceptable rate.
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