Transplant
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A huge multidisciplinary team at NYU Langone Health has successfully undertaken the world’s first whole-eye and partial-face transplant. The landmark surgery opens new possibilities for future advancements in vision therapies.
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Organ transplants save lives, but rejection is a key hurdle. Now scientists have demonstrated a potential new way to prime a recipient’s immune system to accept a transplanted organ, by first giving them an infusion of immune cells from the donor.
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In a major step towards creating new organs on demand to alleviate donor waitlists, Stanford scientists have now received a contract and funding for experiments to 3D print human hearts and implant them into live pigs.
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Scientists at Stanford Medicine have tested a new potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The therapy involves transplanting blood stem cells from healthy mice into those with the disease, which helps replace defective neural cells.
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A 58-year-old man with terminal heart disease has become the second patient to receive a pig's heart, in a complicated, high-risk xenotransplant. The first recipient died last year from complications, two months after the landmark world-first surgery.
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Scientists from Northwestern University have successfully created a device, tested on mice, that can detect warning signs of kidney rejection up to three weeks before current monitoring methods.
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In a phase 1 clinical trial, scientists have demonstrated that corneal transplants, grown from a patient’s own stem cells, can successfully restore some vision after an eye injury.
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In another encouraging step toward relieving transplant organ shortages, surgeons at NYU Langone Health have kept a genetically engineered pig kidney alive and fully functioning inside a brain-dead patient for over a month for the first time.
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Scientists have demonstrated that genetically edited pig kidneys transplanted into a human can continue to function for at least a week, with no sign of rejection. The breakthrough case study could help reduce organ waitlists and resulting deaths.
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Researchers have transplanted specialized brain support cells into mice and found that they replaced unhealthy and aged cells. The findings open the door to developing an effective treatment for a range of neurological conditions.
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In an exciting step forward in surgery advances, the first successful liver transplant performed by a robot has taken place in the US, offering minimal invasiveness and speedy recovery time. Clinics now plan to ramp up wider use of this innovative tech.
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A 31-year-old woman desperately needed a heart transplant to save her life, but doctors knew her body would reject the organ. So they took an unusual approach: they also replaced her healthy liver. The procedure was a groundbreaking success.
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