transplants

Insulin-producing cells grown in the lab could offer a functional cure for the disease.

Primates receiving heart transplants from genetically engineered pigs have survived more than six months, a new study reveals.

Blind rats are made to see after sheets of cells implanted into their eyes make themselves at home.

An investigation finds regenerative medicine researcher Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson manipulated data in seven papers.

Doctors treated the fetus, who has alpha thalassemia major, with cells from her mother’s bone marrow.

The woman’s own cartilage was used to construct the transplant after she lost her left ear in a car crash.

After losing his genitals in a roadside bomb explosion, the soldier endured a 14-hour surgery to have a donated penis, scrotum, and partial abdominal wall attached.

After implantation, the tissue developed blood vessels and became integrated into neuronal networks in the animals’ brains.

Gender discrimination, Brexit, and climate change are among the issues that have received considerable attention from the scientific community this year.

The group calls for the retraction of six publications by surgeon Paolo Macchiarini regarding the synthetic trachea transplantations that led to the death of at least three patients. 

Using human stems cells and segments of rat intestines, scientists engineer bowels that are capable of absorbing nutrients.

Tissue recipients were treated as “guinea pigs,” says investigation leader.

Four products have already qualified for the regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation that provides extra interactions with the agency, and sooner.

The diabetic volunteer continued to produce insulin one year after she received a transplant of abdominal islet cells.

Artificial bones produce new blood cells in mice, obviating the need for irradiation to kill off resident hematopoietic stem cells in recipients.

Despite claims of preclinical success by a leading surgeon, doctors, scientists, and medical ethicists say the science is not ready.  

Thomas Starzl performed the first successful human liver transplant in 1967 and went on to help develop drugs that improved survival for organ transplant patients.

A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research

A man who lost his penis due to cancer has received the organ from a deceased donor.