Proof-of-concept drone flight delivers transplant lung to patient in Toronto
Credit: Unither Bioelectronics, Bromont QC
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Report: The US organ transplant network is failing desperate patients
The US network that matches donated kidneys, livers and hearts with desperate patients has serious issues and "needs to be vastly restructured," according to…
The US organ transplant network is built on shaky technology, reports say
The nonprofit that runs the organ transplant network in the United States has out-of-date technology and has never been fully audited by the federal…
Researchers Transplant Pig Hearts in Two Dead Persons: All Details
New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one…
Pressure mounts on FDA to expand pig-to-human organ transplant research
In January, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine made history by successfully transplanting a pig's heart into a human. The 57-year-old…
Doctors Transplant 3-D Printed Ear Made of Human Cells
The patient, who is from Mexico, was born with microtia, a rare birth defect that causes the auricle, or external part of the ear, to be small and malformed…
New MRI technique may prove to be a boon for heart transplant patients
Sydney: The days of heart transplant survivors undergoing invasive biopsies could soon be over after a new MRI technique has proven to be safe and effective,…
New MRI technique set to transform heart transplant care
Sydney, May 30
The days of heart transplant survivors undergoing invasive biopsies could soon be over…
A pig virus may have contributed to the death of first pig heart transplant patient
A preventable infection by a porcine virus might have contributed to the death of the first patient to have a heart transplant with a pig organ, MIT…
Burst of accumulated zinc shows how the mineral boosts immune function, suggesting ways to improve…
Zinc's immune-boosting properties are well-established, but scientists haven't known exactly how it works. In a new study published online March 25 in the…