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    The unregulated body trade

    Farrah Fasold poses for a portrait with a painting of her late father Harold Dillard at her home in Flower Mound, Texas, July 18, 2017 Photo by Brandon Wade/Reuters The transplanting of organs from dead people to living ones is strictly regulated in every state. But the business in body parts for research is another matter. Reuters news…

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 31, 2017 • 1 min read

    Farrah Fasold poses for a portrait with a painting of her late father Harold Dillard

    at her home in Flower Mound, Texas, July 18, 2017

    Photo by Brandon Wade/Reuters

    The transplanting of organs from dead people to living ones is strictly regulated in every state. But the business in body parts for research is another matter. Reuters news service gave an editor and two reporters a year to examine a multi-million-dollar industry comprised of "body-brokers" and their clients. Blake Morrison is the editor.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Devan Schwartz

      Producer

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      Sáša Woodruff

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Blake Morrison

      Reuters

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