Liviahs New Liver: A Family Grapples With a Girls Puzzling Hepatitis
It was three days before Christmas, and Elizabeth Widders was perched in her upstairs bathroom, …
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A Reversible Form of Death? Scientists Revive Cells in Dead Pigs Organs
The pigs had been lying dead in the lab for an hour — no blood …
Liviahs New Liver: A Family Grapples With a Girls Puzzling Hepatitis
A 4-year-old in Ohio is one of hundreds of children worldwide who have developed unexplained liver problems in recent months.
Doctors Transplant Ear of Human Cells, Made by 3-D Printer
3DBio Therapeutics, a biotech company in Queens, said it had for the first time used 3-D printing to make a body part with a patients own cells.
What a Gene and Its Risks Could Mean for Kidney Transplants
Kidneys from Black donors are automatically downgraded in transplant assessments, but studying a gene variant could help change that.
An Animal Virus Infected the Man Who Received a Pigs Heart
The patient showed no sign of rejecting the genetically modified organ, but may have died from the viral infection, his surgeon said.
Migraines cost the UK economy £8.8 billion a year
Lead author Dr James Chandler, from The Work Foundation, said: ‘Migraine is the most common …