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While the first human organ transplant was performed 50 years ago, it was the arrival of the drug cyclosporine that vastly improved transplant survival rates and helped make transplantation the almost routine procedure it is today. That development offered hope to thousands of patients suffering from failing kidneys, livers, and hearts.

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