POSTS TAGGED AS transplant medicine

Surgeons Use a Pig Kidney in a Human

Surgeons successfully  transplanted a pig kidney to a human
“The surgical team, from NYU Langone Health, attached the pig kidney to [MORE]

Medical Drone, Carrying Lab Specimens, Crashes

Drone transports donated kidney
Here’s the good news and the bad.  In the more recent story a drone was able to [MORE]

Stem Cell Approach to Fertility

Using ovaries that were removed from healthy females undergoing sex reassignment, cytologists at Massachusetts General Hospital were able to [MORE]

“Suspended Animation” for Transplantable Organs

Preserving organs for donors
Hemant Thatte, a surgeon at the V.A. Hospital in Boston, has developed a liquid preservative that [MORE]