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After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney transplants: being able to transfer kidneys from donors with different blood types than the …

In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a …

After a decade of work, researchers are closer than ever to a key breakthrough in kidney organ transplants: being able to transfer kidneys from donors with different blood types than …

When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated organ transplants might make a person “get younger” and even live to …

A genetically modified pig lung transplanted into a brain-dead human patient functioned for nine days in a new achievement that reveals both the promise and significant challenges of xenotransplantation. Over …

A Duke University surgeon revives the “dead” heart on the operating table after stopping the beat for more than five minutes. The organ was later transplanted into the breast of …

In early February, an Australian in his 40s became the first in the world to leave the hospital with a virtually unbreakable metal heart. The “pulsation” in his chest was …

From meat-craving vegetarians to changes in sexual preferences, some organ transplant patients report changes to personality that reflect those of organ donors. a 2024 Research By suggesting that organs convey …

A Kentucky man who woke up just as his organs were about to be harvested for donation has called into question the procedures used by U.S. hospitals and organ donation …

A 58-year-old American man has become the first person in the world to have his failing heart replaced with a temporary titanium blood pump. This metal organ appears to have …