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Nephrodite’s device designed to ‘free patients from the cycle of center-based dialysis’ becomes the first to receive the designation. Medical device startup Nephrodite has received Breakthrough Device Designation from the …

Life-saving stem cell transplants have been limited by the need to perfectly match the blood types of donors and recipients, but a discovery by the Minneapolis agency that orchestrates these …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man in China became the first recipient of a pig lung. The genetically modified pig organ was transplanted into the 39-year-old, …

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Scientists have devised a non-invasive way to determine if a transplanted organ – such as a kidney, liver, lung or heart – is not being accepted well by the patient. …

Dr. Leonardo Riera: This has always been a major debate throughout the field of xenotransplantation. So how much risk is there? What we have learned over the past 20 years …

Interesting engineering ice 3D printing eliminates queues for organ transplants Carnegie Mellon researchers employ 3D ice printing to create life-like blood vessels, a breakthrough with potential for organ transplants and …