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A team at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) has performed the world’s first heart transplant with zero ischemic time ...
Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...
PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauren Neergaard and Shelby Lum, ...
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.
D printing skin, bone, and even working organs could change transplant medicine and medical research — but how, exactly, does ...
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 ...