Organ donations save thousands of lives every year, but you don't have to be dead to donate, some organs you can give while ...
Every year, Kidney Donation Awareness Day shines a spotlight on the life-changing impact of organ donation. For people living ...
But will these “bodyoids” ever be ethically acceptable? This week, MIT Technology Review published a piece on bodyoids—living bodies that cannot think or feel pain. In the piece, a trio of experts ...
An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced, in Science Advances, the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users to explore intact human organs in unprecedented ...
FOR YEARS Tim Andrews, a pensioner from New Hampshire, suffered with failing kidneys. Dialysis could not stop a steady decline in his health. “Most likely I was going to pass away before I got to the ...
When Cindy Zbin learned she couldn’t donate part of her liver to her ailing husband, Dave, she was heartbroken. Luckily, he received a transplant from a deceased donor, saving his life. Just weeks ...
The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it’s undertaking an initiative to reform the country’s organ donation system, after a federal investigation found that one organization ...
A live human heart was transported in just 20 minutes through the Namma Metro in Bengaluru on Friday night for a critical transplant. The swift operation ensured the organ reached the recipient ...