One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs for transplantation. More than 100,000 people in the US are waiting for a ...

A surgical team at Virginia Commonwealth University recently performed the first fully robotic liver transplantation in the ...

In the US alone, there are more than 100,000 patients on the waiting list for an organ transplant ... from scratch from a special type of cells. This would give researchers and doctors a nearly ...

More than half a century after the world’s first heart transplant, scientists are finding fascinating ways to improve the ...

Earlier this year his team also performed a different pig-to-human liver transplant ... the transfer of living organs or tissues from one species into another. Doctors have already seen success ...

it may also have applications in other types of allograft (i.e., transplanting an organ from one human to another) transplant procedures. More recently, this mechanism of action has also ...

This preserves future possibilities for transplantation for her ... that it was cleared by the FDA to use this type of pig kidney in the first human clinical trials to study xenotransplantation.