Scientists at a Massachusetts company seeking to make pig organs safe enough to be transplanted into humans have used gene-editing technology to clone piglets that lack a potentially dangerous retrovirus, according to a study released Thursday. The breakthrough, according to authors of the study published ...
A Nagoya hospital will set up a project team to consider womb transplants for women born without a uterus or whose uterus has been surgically removed due to cancer or other conditions, the hospital said Wednesday. While successful uterus transplants have been carried out overseas, ...
A team led by University of Tokyo researchers has successfully created a healthy pancreas from mouse stem cells inside the body of a rat, in a first between different species, a study published in the British science journal Nature showed. The pancreas, later transplanted into ...
Surgeons in Poland said Thursday they had successfully attached a hand from a deceased donor to a man born without one, in what they claimed was a world first. "It is the first graft in the world of an upper limb onto an adult with ...
A new technique could help nearly double the precious few hours surgeons have to carry out lung transplants, raising hopes for saving more lives, said a study released Friday. Doctors typically rush to complete a transplant within about six hours of the lungs being taken ...
Texas doctors have done the first womb transplants using live donors in the United States. Four women who had been born without a uterus received one in operations last month at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Three of the wombs have had to be ...
The recipient of America's first penis transplant says he is looking forward to walking out of the hospital a "complete" man. "There is no doubt in my mind that everything is going to work. And I mean everything," 64-year-old Thomas Manning said Wednesday with a ...
Surgeons in Cleveland have performed America's first uterus transplant, a new frontier that aims to give women who lack wombs a chance at pregnancy. In a statement Thursday, the Cleveland Clinic said the nine-hour surgery was performed a day earlier on a 26-year-old woman, using ...
A man in his 50s died after receiving a liver transplanted from a living donor at a Kobe hospital last March, raising to seven the number of fatalities among the 10 patients who have undergone the operation at the facility, sources said Monday. The man ...
A New Hampshire man found his perfect match in more ways than one when he first met his girlfriend on a golf course last summer. Forty-nine-year-old Jack Simard of Manchester is slated for his second kidney transplant around Valentine's Day and the donor is his ...
A 6-year-old Kentucky boy born with a malformed right hand because of a rare disorder has received what he called his best Christmas gift ever — a "bionic" prosthetic made from 3-D printing technology. Lucas Abraham, who has wanted a working right hand since he ...
For one family in Sweden, a pioneering procedure has led to a baby being born from his grandmother's womb transplanted into his mother's body, uniting three generations. The new mother, who lost her own uterus to cancer in her 20s, said it was "unimaginable" that ...
