Scientists take first steps to growing human organs in pigs
By MALCOLM RITTER Scientists have grown human cells inside pig embryos, a very early step toward the goal of growing livers and other human organs in animals to transplant into…
Organ transplants
Does China still harvest organs of executed? Doctors divided
A Canadian patient’s receipt of a kidney transplant after waiting just three days during a recent visit to China raised an immediate red flag among surgeons at the Montreal-based Transplantation…
SWEDISH DOCTORS TRANSPLANT WOMBS INTO 9 WOMEN
By MALIN RISING and MARIA CHENG In this April 4, 2012 photo made available by the University of Goteborg in Sweden, the Swedish research team practices before the operations to…
UNOS TO OVERSEE HAND, FACE TRANSPLANTS LIKE ORGANS
By LAURAN NEERGAARD This photo taken Dec. 20, 2013 shows double hand transplant recipient, Lindsay Aronson Ess, working on her dexterity during a physical therapy session in Richmond, Va. Sure…