After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

The Federal Government has announced that all health facilities ... we will establish an organ donation and transplantation registry and banking system to streamline the management of organ ...

Progress towards 3D-printed organs has been slow due to challenges like vascularization and cell viability. 3D bioprinting ...

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned normally for the duration of the ...

though it has been documented in a very small number of cases involving organ transplantation. UToledo Health is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all our patients. The health system has ...

Renowned cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Jose Chacko Periappuram has many firsts to his credit. He performed Kerala’s first heart transplant, India’s first heart re-t ...

This led us to revise the system ... patients agreed for their organs to be harvested. “So, the conversion rate was only 13 per cent. If (the families of) all 550 (patients) agreed ...

The recipient died the following month after receiving the body part ... the first human case of rabies in Michigan since 2009. Rabies primarily affects the central nervous system and can lead ...