But on average only two of those 400 will become organ donors after death.

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It was a pleasure to meet them and I hope Sam's story will encourage more people to consider organ donation as a means of helping people like her.

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He will also take charge of a big piece of legislation to change the law on organ donation.

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If eggs can be made from the stem cells of men, with the advent of an artificial womb (already in use for sharks, in development with mammals and projected to be in use for humans within 100 years), it will also give them an organ they currently have to pay surrogate mothers for the use of.

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