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It is commonly known that there are not enough organs being donated to supply all patients in need of a replacement. Another factor that co...

Theoretically, stem cells should be able to regenerate all damaged tissues in our body. Basically every organ has its own mature stem cells...

3D printers have rapidly gained interest from both scientists as well as the general public. Hailed as machines that can make everything, t...

Blindness has been impossible to cure for a very long time. More recently, we have begun to understand how the eye turns light into the ele...

Because of a lack of donors it is highly necessary to find an alternative source of organs that can be used for transplantation. Recent stu...

War can leave devastating scars on the bodies of soldiers, and the loss of arms and legs is frequent. As we are unable to regrow organs or ...

We are getting better in optimizing the compatibility of organs, and have thereby made transplantations feasible, but the lack of available...

Organ transplantation has the potential to save people's lives. One of the major hurdles, in addition to actually acquiring the necessa...

There is a great need for more organ donors, because there are not enough replacements, such as heart, kidney or lung, to provide all patie...

One of the most promising fields of science is the artificial construction of tissues and organs that can be used for transplantation. Afte...

For the first time in medical history, a patient has received a blood vessel transplant made from her own stem cells. After the surgery, th...

Creating artificial organs could in the future solve the lack of organ donors and provide increased compatibility for the patient receiving...

While our body has several repair mechanisms, restoring lost organ function is usually not very easy. Organs such as the brain or the heart...

Stem cells can be found in various shapes in many organs. Some are 'true' stem cells that still have the ability to turn into any t...

Combining all sorts of relevant medical data in a complex 3D computer model should improve the way we do face transplantations. This is mu...

A study conducted by Harvard University yielded a surprising result, as they managed to decrease obesity in mice by transplanting a bunch ...

A large comparison study has found that patients who received an organ transplant, being kidney, lung, heart or liver, have a much bigger ...