Tag: transplants

A team of scientists has created a device that monitors transplanted organs, detecting signs of rejection weeks in advance.

The innovative nanowarming technique could be the key to pushing the limits of human life, opening up new possibilities in the field ...

A non-profit organization and an advertising agency team up to promote organ donation through a free tattoo.

Pig cells today, but tomorrow this experimental technique could preserve human organs destined for donation

The perfusion machine developed in Switzerland allows a liver, which has been successfully transplanted, to last longer ...

Double hand transplant for scleroderma is the first of its kind in the world, and can provide ...

The protagonist of an extraordinary transplant did not make it, the first of its kind and the one with the most ...

An enzyme "bath" allows the organs to eliminate the antigens that produce rejection. New perspectives for transplants.

A rejection-free xenograft from pig to man: this is the magnificent result obtained by a US team

A new bioartificial kidney, the first in the world with these characteristics, can eliminate the need for transplants and dialysis.

The first totally artificial heart transplant was a success: it mimics human behavior, complete with liquid pumped inside.

The skin of fish (specifically: cod) used to regenerate human skin and repair wounds? Yes, without rejection and ...

An oxygenation technique recovers lungs to be transplanted otherwise considered unsuitable, and extends their availability.

In laboratory tests, the team restored motor function in mice affected by multiple sclerosis.

A new method allows to make the tissues of human organs completely transparent: an important step to reduce waiting ...

Fundamental discovery to make stem-based treatments much easier on patients with kidney disease: they will be able to avoid ...

A human liver transplant can be kept alive for a week in a new machine developed by the University of ...

An expert neurosurgeon develops a medical hypothesis on head transplantation, and expects it to be feasible within the next ten years.

8 months after the first similar surgery in the world, doctors declare penis and scrotum transplantation perfectly successful ...

The importance of creating a human liver from a skin sample? Huge: it will be possible to create mini-organs to test ...

A team of scientists has vastly extended the time window in which a liver to be transplanted can be stored in ...