Jad Abumrad

Liquid liver.

Yeah.

They went in, again, got a tour.

The whole thing.

The researchers then tell her that they had a little issue with Thomas's liver.

But then they told her that they were able to use it in an experiment.

Okay, half a rose there.

Half a rose, yeah.

And she says at one point as they were being walked around the place...

Now, Arupa Ganguly, just to switch to her for a second, she studies a kind of cancer of the eye called retinal blastoma, which happens almost exclusively in children.

And at this point, she doesn't know Sarah.

She has no concept of this whole search that's happening.

She is just studying eyes.

Now, she studies tumors, but she also needs healthy retinas in order to do her work.

Sad and frustrating, she says.

So she says often when the retinas arrive, which happens maybe once a year, and you pull them out of their packaging.

Like maybe you're trading on other people's misery.

Now, Rupa had never spoken to a parent of any of her samples.

So when she got that email and she was sitting at her computer and she read the email from the company that provided her the sample saying the mother of this sample wants to get in contact with you.

And they ended up eventually talking on the phone.