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? ~health Article 4781 words 32 votes
Womb transplants are now a life-changing reality. Here’s how the extraordinary procedure works. ~science medicine Link 37 votes
Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart transplant ~health medicine Article 435 words 21 votes
A single reform that could save 100,000 lives across the USA immediately ~health healthcare medicine Article 990 words, published Jul 9 2023 24 votes
Swedish appeals court ups surgeon's sentence for 'harm' during experimental windpipe transplants ~health medicine Article 542 words 7 votes
Forget designer babies. Here’s how CRISPR is really changing lives. ~health medicine Article 1264 words 6 votes
Swedish court has given disgraced Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini a suspended sentence for causing bodily harm during an experimental stem-cell windpipe transplant ~health medicine Article 58 words 3 votes
Doctors transplant a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time ~science medicine biology Article 641 words 19 votes
Hospital refusing heart transplant for man who won't get vaccinated ~health medicine healthcare Article 439 words 28 votes
First pig-human transplant: A recap ~science medicine biology Video 24:56, published Jan 14 2022 4 votes
In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human ~science medicine biology Article 736 words 8 votes
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 ~science medicine biology Article 380 words 9 votes
Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs ~science medicine biology Article 601 words 4 votes
21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant ~science medicine biology Article 1126 words 21 votes
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. ~science medicine biology Article 265 words, published Jan 27 2020 5 votes
Nova Scotia to become first in North America with presumed consent for organ donation ~health healthcare medicine Article 1051 words 18 votes
A bone-marrow transplant treated a patient’s leukemia — and his schizophrenic delusions, too. Some doctors think they know why. ~science medicine biology Article 1460 words 12 votes
Bioengineered lungs grown in a lab successfully transplanted into living pigs ~science biology medicine Article 359 words 8 votes