Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient
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Pig transplant research yields pork safe for some with red meat allergy caused by lone star tick
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World’s first larynx transplant restores voice of a cancer patient
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Doctors try a controversial technique to reduce the transplant organ shortage
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Algorithms are deciding who gets organ transplants [in the UK's NHS]. Are their decisions fair?
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Fecal microbiota transplant: Inside the black market for human poop
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How ECMO is redefining death
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Compensating compassion | Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier to donate, but avoid the abuses that some fear from cash payments?
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Second person to receive experimental pig heart transplant dies
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Womb transplants are now a life-changing reality. Here’s how the extraordinary procedure works.
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US surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart transplant
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A single reform that could save 100,000 lives across the USA immediately
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Swedish appeals court ups surgeon's sentence for 'harm' during experimental windpipe transplants
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Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives.
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Fifth person confirmed to be cured of HIV
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Swedish court has given disgraced Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini a suspended sentence for causing bodily harm during an experimental stem-cell windpipe transplant
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Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time
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First pig-human transplant: A recap
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In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human
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Icelandic man receives world's first double-arm-and-shoulder transplant – four surgical teams were involved to minimise the transition time between donor and recipient
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Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs
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21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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When you give a friend a kidney
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Nova Scotia to become first in North America with presumed consent for organ donation
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The devastating allure of medical miracles
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How a transplanted face transformed a young woman’s life
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Bioengineered lungs grown in a lab successfully transplanted into living pigs
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