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

Spine Tingling

Neuroscience/Brain Science

Come on.

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

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

Ethical Irregularities

"It’s highly unusual, I’ve never heard of it before, and it’s also highly inappropriate."

Texas Surgeon Accused of Manipulating Government Database to Deny Liver Transplants

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

Liver It Up

Developments

"We're using the lymph node as a living bioreactor."

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

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

Grave Robbery

Horrifying.

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

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

Hey Piggy

Breakthroughs

No sign of rejection or infection.

Man Is Doing Well With Implanted Pig Heart, Doctors Say

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

Terrific Transplant

"It is time for clinical translation of this vital technology."

Monkey Lives for Two Years With Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

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

Surgical

Another step forward in xenotransplants.

Doctors Transplant Beating Pig Hearts Into Dead Human Bodies

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.

Human Pig Virus

"Something happened. He looked sick. He lost his attention."

Scientists Reveal Why Man Died After Receiving Pig Heart Transplant

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

Pig Hearts

Genetics

"It was either die or do this transplant."

Doctors Transplant Gene-Hacked Pig Heart Into Living Human Patient

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

One for the Road

The number of people on liver transplant waiting lists was 50 percent higher than predicted. 

We Drank So Much During the Pandemic that Liver Transplants Spiked

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

Off the List

Rx/Medicines

It doesn't want the organs to go to waste.

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

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

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