New stem cell treatment could cure blindness
Category: Science & Technology | Posted on 11-23-2009 | 2 comments
Trials could soon begin of a controversial new treatment using stem cells to treat a form of incurable blindness, if a license is granted the science team behin...

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Indian man has 5 kidneys
Category: Bizarre | Posted on 7-7-2009 | 11 comments
A photographer from India has five kidneys after receiving three additional ones via donations from his two sisters and mother.

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Boffins keep transplant lungs alive in glass dome
Category: Science & Technology | Posted on 12-29-2008 | 1 comment
Canadian medi-boffins have successfully trialled a method of keeping human lungs alive outside the body.

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Surgeons operate windpipe transplant breakthrough
Category: Science & Technology | Posted on 11-20-2008 | 6 comments
Surgeons in spain have carried out the world's first tissue-engineered whole organ transplant - using a windpipe made with the patient's own stem cells.

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Back from dead’ case stuns doctors
Category: Bizarre | Posted on 6-12-2008 | 16 comments
The case of a man whose heart stopped beating for 1-1/2 hours only to revive just as doctors were preparing to remove his organs for transplants is fuelling eth...

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Can we really transplant a human soul ?
Category: Spirituality | Posted on 4-10-2008 | 19 comments
Danny Penman: the progress of medical science in the past 30 years has been so rapid that yesterday's miracles are tomorrow's commonplace procedures.

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New kidney 'changed my whole personality'
Category: Metaphysics & Psychology | Posted on 3-19-2008 | 6 comments
A woman claims to have undergone a complete "personality transplant" after receiving a new kidney.

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Man gets new jaw from stem cells
Category: Science & Technology | Posted on 2-4-2008 | 8 comments
Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tis...

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Liver recipient takes on donor's immune system
Category: Science & Technology | Posted on 1-29-2008 | 6 comments
An australian teenager who received a liver transplant has astonished medical experts by taking on her donor's immune system.

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First genome transplant performed
Category: Science & Technology | Posted on 8-18-2007 | 1 comment
For the first time, scientists have completely transformed a species of bacteria into another species by transplanting its complete set of DNA.