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Medicine

How treatments are built, tested and judged.

The clock that starts when an organ leaves the body

Transplantation is often told as a story about surgery. Much of the real constraint is a story about time and temperature.

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MedicineMethods

How medical evidence is actually built, and why it takes so long

The gap between a promising laboratory result and an accepted treatment is not bureaucracy. It is the process by which a claim earns the right to be believed.

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