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WHEN Cheng Peiming was dragged from his cell, hauled to a hospital, and pinned down to have organs forcibly removed, he had no idea he would one day count himself …

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five …

Spanish scientists have successfully combined human kidney organoids with pig kidneys and transplanted them back into the same animal, therefore creating the world’s first functional human-pig hybrid kidney. The pioneering …

A major medical milestone has been reached with the successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human. The case, reported in the Journal of Hepatology, marks …

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The transplant was led by Dr. M. Deenadayalan, Head of the Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Published Aug 20, 2025 | 6:22 PM ⚊ Updated Aug …

Richard “Rick” Suleiman of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was battling end-stage kidney disease. In a medical first, a 62-year-old man has been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital after undergoing a successful kidney …

A new world first in the field of human heart transplant surgery has taken place after a donor heart was successfully transported across the Atlantic Ocean on a long-haul commercial …

Chinese scientists successfully perform first transplant gene edited A breakthrough method of transplanting whole pig livers into humans could help alleviate organ shortages. A pig liver that had been edited …

Reuters — Forty years have passed since Bert Jansen was diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given only six months to live. Guinness World Records as the longest surviving …