Clinic plans first transplant of a human face
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Someone severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using skin and underlying fat from an organ donor.
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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A remarkable operation to replace the skin and hair of a five-year-old burns victim is said to have gone very well.
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The Cleveland Clinic in the United states says it is the first institution to receive review board approval of human facial transplant for someone severely disfigured by burns or disease.
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If a technique used in mice can be adapted to human cells, it would let scientists use a patientâs skin cells to generate new heart, liver or kidney cells.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A team of doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands say in a new medical journal article that they are ready to perform a face transplant.
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LOUISVILLE, KY. -- A team of doctors from Louisville and the Netherlands say they&#39;re ready to do a face transplant, a procedure considered controversial by some medical ethicists.
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Scientists developed an implant they say could help rebuild the faces of disfigured children.
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The Frenchwoman who received the worldâs first partial face transplant  regained nearly full use of her facial muscles within 18 months.
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Morphing two faces together helps scientists understand how we recognise faces.
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Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.
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Cell transplants for type 1 diabetes, which hold hope of a cure, to be made available at specialist centres.
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A woman transplant patient came face to face with her old heart Tuesday at an exhibition she hopes will increase public awareness about organ donations.
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Researchers from Kentucky and the Netherlands say they are ready to perform a face transplant. The procedure involves replacing someone&#39;s entire face with a dead donor&#39;s face.
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Scientists have developed a stengthened cement to be used in facial reconstructive surgery.
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The decision marks the first time a mechanical device has been made widely available to replace a failing human organ.
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German physicians have pioneered a way to create and transplant bone grafts from one part of a patient&#39;s body to another. The work of Patrick H. Warnke and associates at the University of Kiel is summarized