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In a gruesome video, a biologist proposes that doctors can perform head transplants by using advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.
Neuroscience and Brain

This Deranged Plan to Transplant a Human Head From One Body to Another Might Be the Dumbest Thing We’ve Ever Seen

By Sharon Adarlo

A respected Houston transplant surgeon has been accused of altering database information for patients waiting on a new liver.
Medical

Texas Surgeon Accused of Manipulating Government Database to Deny Liver Transplants

By Noor Al-Sibai

The experimental cell therapy attempts to grow a second liver on lymph nodes using cells extracted from a donated organ.
Developments

Scientists Inject Patient With Slurry to Make Them Grow a New Liver

By Frank Landymore

It is the second recently reported case of organs missing from the bodies of inmates who died in Alabama's prison system.
Developments

Inmate’s Body Returned to Family Missing All Organs, Including Brain

By Frank Landymore

About a month after his surgery, a man who received a genetically modified pig heart has no sign of rejection or infection.
Developments

Man Is Doing Well With Implanted Pig Heart, Doctors Say

By Sharon Adarlo

The pig was actually a miniature pig, which was engineered with nearly 70 gene edits, including the addition of human DNA.
Developments

Monkey Lives for Two Years With Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

By Frank Landymore

A team of surgeons at NYU Langone successfully transplanted genetically engineered pig hearts into two patients who were recently declared deceased from brain death.
Developments

Doctors Transplant Beating Pig Hearts Into Dead Human Bodies

By Frank Landymore

A man who successfully lived for two months after having his failing heart replaced with a genetically altered one from a pig, may have suffered from a virus pigs are known to carry, The New York Times reports.
Developments

Scientists Reveal Why Man Died After Receiving Pig Heart Transplant

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, a team of US surgeons have transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a living human — a huge milestone.
Gene Editing

Doctors Transplant Gene-Hacked Pig Heart Into Living Human Patient

By Victor Tangermann

The researchers discovered that there was a positive correlation between the sale of alcohol with the number of patients on liver transplant waiting lists.
Developments

We Drank So Much During the Pandemic that Liver Transplants Spiked

By Tony Ho Tran

Healthcare provider UCHealth won't give kidney transplants to patients not vaccinated against COVID-19 because they're less likely to survive the disease.
Viruses

Hospital Says It Won’t Do Organ Transplants on Unvaccinated People

By Dan Robitzski

In a new study, doctors managed to grow functional, miniature human livers out of stem cells and tested them in living rats.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats

By Dan Robitzski

This Biotech Company Claims to Have 3D Printed a Mini Human Heart
3D Printing

This Biotech Company Claims to Have 3D Printed a Mini Human Heart

By Victor Tangermann

The organ shortage could get worse with the advent of self-driving cars, but advances in xenotransplantation could make up the difference and then some.
Health & Medicine

The Organ Shortage Will Soon Get Worse. Animal Organs Could Help.

By Kristin Houser

A newly published analysis of 445 Chinese transplant studies reveals a startling lack of information on the source of the organs.
Health & Medicine

Study Accuses China of Likely Stealing Organs From Prisoners

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have successfully transplanted pig hearts into baboons, keeping four of the animals alive for more than 90 days.
Health & Medicine

Baboons With Pig Hearts Bring Us Closer to Human-Pig Transplants

By Kristin Houser