For most of human history, when a vital part of the body failed, there was little doctors could do.
Then a series of advances in surgery, immunology, and pharmaceuticals made something once considered impossible increasingly routine.
It required solving problems of compatibility, rejection, preservation, and even the definition of death itself. Today, tens of thousands of people owe their lives to this breakthrough.
Learn more about the history of organ transplants and how they work on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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