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Knowledge about infectious disease status guides our bioidentity

Published in Blood Weekly, October 14th, 2004

Knowledge about infectious disease status guides our bioidentity.

"Clinical medicine and biotechnology increasingly utilize and transform human bodily tissues in novel ways. Today more and more tissues - blood, whole organs, ova, embryos, sperm, skin, bone, heart valves, cellular material, bone marrow and corneas - can be transferred between donors and recipients. Hence more and more people in developed nations have the experience of giving a fragment of their body to another, or receiving such a fragment as part of some kind of therapy," investigators in Australia report.

"These systems for the circulation of tissues raise the question of what we...

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