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A medical team at Xijing Hospital of the Air Force Medical University in Xi’an, China, surgically connected a man with liver failure to an external, genetically…

A baby boy named Hugo is the first child to be born in the UK to a mother with a womb transplant from a dead donor.Hugo…

Axolotls are famous for their ability to regrow significant parts of their bodies. But according to recent research, these frilly-headed salamanders, which are native to lakes…

It is hard not to feel a certain sadness reading arguments for legalising the sale of kidneys that rely more on provocation than on engagement with…

X-rays show a 33-year old patients’ new lungs (left) and old lungs (right).Credit: Northwestern MedicineA 33-year-old man survived for 48 hours without his lungs, after a…

A leading surgeon behind a clinical trial of transplanting pig kidneys into living humans has said they could one day be superior to those from human…

Doctors have developed an AI tool that could reduce wasted efforts to transplant organs by 60%.Thousands of patients worldwide are waiting for a potentially life-saving donor,…

new video loaded: Hear Trinity Church’s New Organ, 10 Years in the MakingIn Lower Manhattan, Trinity Church’s organ was heavily damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks.…

Organs Age in Waves Accelerating at 50 Years OldAging is a complex process that plays out differently across different organs, according to growing evidenceBy Heidi Ledford…

Under pressure from the federal government to increase organ transplants, hospitals and organ procurement organizations across the country are rushing people toward donation, and some patients…