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Second Patient Receives Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 days agoLisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second living person to receive a transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney. Doctors also ...
Centra is the only hospital in Virginia testing a new device to treat heart failure
ABC 13 Lynchburg· 1 day agoDoctors are currently testing a new device that could help simplify the treatment for congestive ...
Mike Curtis
Time Magazine· 20 hours agoFind out why Mike Curtis is on the TIME100 Health list.
First fetus-to-fetus transplant demonstrated in rats
Nature· 3 days agoThe tissue developed into functioning kidneys and produced urine.
Kidney Transplanted From One Rat Fetus To Another In World First
IFLScience· 2 days agoScientists in Japan say they have successfully transplanted kidney tissue between rat fetuses while...
A horse-shaped nebula gets its close-up in new photos by NASA’s Webb telescope
Courthouse News Service· 4 days agoNASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula, showing the “mane” in finer detail. The Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion, ...
Thousands of Black patients moved up the national kidney transplant waitlist after new, race-neutral...
13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads· 2 days agoAfter a series of tests, doctors told Norris he had pneumonia. "They did [an] ultrasound on my...
Extending human life with pig organs
Galveston County Daily News· 2 days agoHere is a quote you might recognize from the book or movie “Charlotte’s Web.” Charlotte the spider says to Wilbur the pig, “After all, what’s a life,...
32-year-old Denton man grateful for kidney transplants during National Donate Life Month
Denton Record-Chronicle· 7 days agoFor more than a decade, 32-year-old Angel Gutierrez watched life pass him by. Gutierrez spent his...
Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on mysterious empire
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThis week, an analysis of ancient DNA sheds light on a bygone empire, Voyager 1 is back in touch with NASA, what to do now that the cicadas are here, and...