Progress Seen in Animal-To-Human Organ Transplants
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Animal-to-human organ transplants could be at the dawn of a new era thanks to progress in overcoming rejection and the creation of transgenic pigs, an expert said Tuesday.
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Scientists are developing a device which could improve the lives of kidney dialysis patients.
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Scientists say they have found a safe way to give carbon monoxide to help organ transplant patients.
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Scientists may be a step closer to transplanting a kidney without the need for long-term medication.
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Scientists have moved closer to being able to use human stem cells to manufacture blood.
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Scientists have cultured small pieces of heart tissue which beat in the same way as the whole organ. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team hope the work will lead to new ways of repairing heart damage.
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An 8-month-old boy received five organs in a complex transplant for a rare gastrointestinal disease and is ready for the next step &#151; learning to eat, his doctors said Friday.
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NEW YORK  - The psychological well-being of  patients after lung transplantation is not significantly  different from that in the general population, results of a  small study suggest. However, increased psychological distress  was found in a subgroup of transplant patients.
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An artificial heart does an effective job of keeping heart-transplant candidates alive until -- and even after -- a donor organ becomes available, cardiologists report.
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âWe show, for the first time, we can deliver these potentially high-quality therapeutics to an animal.â Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals.
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Scientists said yesterday that they had transplanted a microbe's entire, tangled mass of DNA into a closely related organism, a delicate operation that cleanly transformed the recipient from one species into the other.
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Scientists say they have made a breakthrough in transplant technology that could help cure more people with diabetes.
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Children who receive organ transplants with a non-matching blood type can grow accustomed to the foreign tissue over the long run, a study has shown.
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While fatal in adults, organ transplants from donors with different blood types work in children under 2. The trick? Taking advantage of children's underdeveloped immune systems. By the Associated Press.
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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: British scientists led by Robert Winston, who are working on growing replacement organs in genetically-modified farm animals, have moved their work to the US.
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Scientists at Washington University have transplanted embryonic pig pancreatic cells into diabetic monkeys, which could have major implications for the treatment of diabetes in humans.