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A team at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has performed the world’s first heart transplant with zero ischemic time ...
A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the ... the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also ...
As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from scientists in Germany offers a potential solution.
In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...
Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant ... heart, kidney, cornea, skin and bone transplants. Wang says the team also recently transplanted a pig kidney into a ...
A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a brain-dead patient throughout a 10-day experiment.
The titanium heart, invented by Daniel Timms, uses magnetic levitation technology with a single rotating disc to pump blood.
Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human recipient, in a world first. Researchers at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi’an used a genetically modified ...
WASHINGTON — On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or ...