fetal tissue transplant
Americannoun
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a surgical procedure in which tissue from an aborted fetus is grafted into a patient to replace or improve defective tissue, especially to treat Parkinson's disease or other neurological disorders.
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the tissue used in this procedure.
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By my count, from 1993 to 2014 the NIH funded only 30 grants involving fetal tissue transplant, out of hundreds of thousands of total grants—about 10,000 are awarded every year.
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