But a shortage of transplant organs and rigorous criteria for the surgery prevent it from being the primary therapy for most patients.

"Doctors love motorcycles," she begins, "because that's how they get their transplant organs."

Currently, with little incentive to donate an organ approximately 6,000 people die yearly waiting for a transplant organ.

Yet with reports of transplant organs being taken from executed Chinese prisoners, how can anyone be sure of where the bones come from?

No western country condones payment for transplant organs, yet most permit altruistic donations.

Storey believes that someday this knowledge may make it possible to refrigerate human transplant organs for weeks or months.

Foreigners who want to buy Egyptian kidneys must come to Egypt because there are no provisions here for the preservation of transplant organs.

There are hopes that similar proteins may be useful for storing transplant organs and for producing better ice cream.

A symposium among legal and medical professionals was held in April 2008 to discuss the diagnostic criteria for brain death for donors of transplant organs.

She knew that transplant organs should be used as soon as possible.