Fear strikes the heart

Heart goes 'oink, oink'

Have virus, will donate

Viruses acquired from animal organ and tissue transplants can harm humans

Vital fixtures

HONG KONG

Beware of pigs

Matters of the heart

Medical science promises a new lease of life to all potential heart-transplant patients

Wanted: hair donors

It may now be possible to transplant hair from one person to the other

Successfully 'hand'led

Making life sweeter

The unfriendly response of the immune system is one of the main problems in pancreas transplant. But researchers have now developed an ingenious …

Dangerous grafting

Public health could be under a serious threat if organ transplants from animals are carelessly conducted

Genetically modified pig heart took longer than usual to beat for human receiver: Scientists

Longer ECG parameters signal heart diseases

First human-monkey embryos created – a small step towards a huge ethical problem

We believe monkeys to have lower moral status than humans; but what about human-monkey chimeras?

'Spare parts' for sale

Unless Indians realise the nobility of donating their organs after death, the illegal trade in organs from living people will continue to flourish.

Tissue transplant: by whose consent?

The removal of the corneas from the body of an accident victim in France, shocked the public and exposed the legal and ethical failings of the …

Charity ends with race

A UK kidney donor sets 'only-whites' condition

Artificial body

Japanese scientists have discovered a new material that can grow new cells in the human body

How to grow human mini-livers in the lab to help solve liver disease

In a first, the organ was genetically engineered using induced pluripotent stem cells, a type of stem cell that can be generated from adult skin …

Ray of hope for transplant patients

A bill introduced during the last session of Parliament seeks to change the definition of death from when the heart stops beating to when the …

Spare parts any takers?

The ethics of transplanting an organ from one species to another is debatable as the dangers involved are too many and unknown

Edge of unreason

From a little-known Gurgaon doctor in 2008 to the alleged involvement of a nephrologist from Delhi's Apollo hospital today, the kidney racket …

Beset with problems

Organ piggybank

Genetically engineered pigs could substitute human organ donors

UK’s first successful womb transplant – key questions answered

We need to take care that in going to such great lengths to make gestational parenting possible, we are not creating a hierarchy in which the …

Malady to miracle: Leprosy bacteria grows liver in armadillos, gives hope for human organ regeneration

Study finds bacteria of the chronic infectious disease reprogrammed certain cells into ‘stem-like cells’