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Nobel winner famous for first successful kidney transplant Murray dies in Boston

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Since the very first kidney transplants on identical twins, hundreds of hundreds of transplants on a selection of organs have actually been done worldwide. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with Dr. E. Donnall Thomas, who won for his work in bone marrow transplants. "Kidney transplants seem so routine now," Murray informed The New York Times after he won the Nobel. "But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean."
Murray's breakthroughs did not come without unfavorable judgment, from ethicists and religious leaders. Some individuals "felt that we were playing God and that we shouldn't be doing all of these, quote, experiments on human beings," he informed The Associated Press in a 2004 meeting where he also spoke out in favor of stem cell research. In the early 1950s, there had never ever been an effective human organ transplant.

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Murray

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0.0126474	"Kidney transplants seem so routine now," Murray told ...
0.0888771	"Kidney transplants seem so routine now," Murray told The New York Times after he won the Nobel. "But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean."
0.0672438	"Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status," Murray said ...
0.0830719	"Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status," Murray said in his Nobel lecture. "This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving."
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Disambiguation: AwardNominee | AwardWinnerReferences:

• Les Murray (poet)
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Richard Herrick

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Ronald Herrick

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Richard

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Dr. E. Donnall Thomas

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Brigham

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Ronald

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HealthCondition: kidney failure

Overall Sentiment: 0.0784878

Relevance: 0.449124

Disambiguation: DiseaseOrMedicalCondition | CauseOfDeath | RiskFactor | Symptom | DiseaseReferences:

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FieldTerminology: bone marrow

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Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has at age 93.

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Nobel winner famous for first successful kidney transplant Murray dies in Boston

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• immune systems
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• kidney failure
• kidney transplant
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• New York Times
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