organs

Baby Receives Heart Transplant With a Life-Changing Twist to Counter Organ Rejection

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A baby in North Carolina has received a first-of-its-kind heart transplant that may prevent his body from rejecting the organ without the need for lifelong drugs to suppress the immune system.    The child, Easton Sinnamon, is the first person to receive a heart transplant along with implantation of thymus tissue from the same donor, according to a statement from Duke … Read more

Patient Who Received World’s First Pig Heart Transplant Has Passed Away

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The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the medical milestone, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.   The procedure raised hopes that advances in cross-species organ donation could one day solve the chronic shortage of human organs available for donation, and … Read more

Kidney transplants: Electric field keeps cells powered up while organs are on ice

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Organs soon run out of energy while they are between donor and recipient, but an electric field could keep them running and improve survival Health 9 March 2022 By Clare Wilson Microscope images showing tissue damage in human donor kidneys without electrical treatment (top left and right) and less damage with treatment (bottom left and … Read more

Ageing: Your organs may age at different rates

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The organs in your body aren’t necessarily the same biological age, and tracking their individual ageing trajectories could help predict your risk of developing specific diseases Health 8 March 2022 By Carissa Wong Artistic illustration of the human kidneys Shutterstock / crystal light An analysis of hundreds of biological features strengthens the evidence that some … Read more

Pig transplants: Are modified animal organs the future of transplants?s

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Leading surgeon David Cooper talks about the dawn of a new era of transplantation in which organs for human transplants come from genetically modified animals Health 8 February 2022 By Michael Le Page Few people know more about transplanting animal organs into humans than David Cooper. “I think this is the beginning of a complete … Read more

Kidney transplants: Gene-edited pig organs are not rejected by brain-dead person

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In an experiment paving the way for clinical trials, two pig kidneys produced urine for 77 hours after transplantation into the body of a brain-dead man Health 20 January 2022 By Michael Le Page Surgeons preparing the pig kidneys for transplantation Jeff Myers, UAB Two pig kidneys genetically engineered to prevent rejection by the immune … Read more

Clinical-Grade Pig Kidney Transplanted Into Human Patient in Scientific First

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For only the second time ever – and the first involving a clinical-grade organ – a genetically modified pig kidney has successfully been transplanted into a brain-dead human body, in a milestone example of xenotransplantation.   Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are trapped in an agonizing wait for a lifesaving organ donation. But there are … Read more

Clitoris evolution: What dolphins reveal about female sex organs

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By Jessica Hamzelou Bottlenose dolphins are “hypersexual creatures” imageBROKER / Alamy Stock Photo Patricia Brennan has forged a controversial career in studying the twist and turns of the evolution of animal genitalia. A biologist based at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, her latest research suggests that bottlenose dolphins have clitorises that have evolved … Read more