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Nature 449, 946 (18 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/449946a; Published online 17 October 2007

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Melissa Yuan-Innes1

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The gift of life.

From the operating table, Rosa Clarke watched the anaesthetist insert a line into her right hand. For a 15-year-old, she must have had difficult veins, because he had to poke her twice before the burgundy blood flashed back up the catheter.