Four weeks ago, I strolled into Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital to a ghost waiting room. All the trappings…
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A new system is capable of maintaining a human liver outside the body for seven days, during which time the damaged…
The long story of sildenafil citrate, best known by the brand name Viagra, may have another chapter to it.…
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There are plenty of people who are exceptional in one way or another. But a new review published this week suggests…
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A baboon survived 195 days after an experimental heart transplant, according to a new paper. But the heart didn’t…
A surgical team from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore performed a total penis and scrotum transplant, the first…
One nice thing about teddy bears is that if your dog tears the head off of your child’s favorite one, you can just…
Sergio Canavero wants to transplant a head, and we can’t look away. Despite our continued skepticism, he does seem…
Jeff Kepner, the first American to receive a double hand transplant, wishes they could be removed.
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A team of surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic have performed the first uterus transplant in the United States. A…
A firefighter from Mississippi whose face became disfigured during a rescue attempt is the recipient of the world’s…
An 8-year-old boy has become the youngest recipient of a double-hand transplant. Four surgical teams worked in shifts for 11 hours to perform the operation at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Zion Harvey will have to remain on medications for the rest of his life, but his new hands are expected to function and…
An Italian neuroscientist who has been advocating for head transplants now wants to make one actually happen. He'll…
Holy crap. A 17-year-old girl in China's Fujian Province has just received a new face from skin that was grown on…
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An Italian neuroscientist says that human head transplants are possible using currently available medical…
At least one Italian scientist is completely and totally serious that head transplants on humans might soon be…
For the first time in medical history, biologists have transplanted a functional lab-grown kidney into a live animal.
Science fiction is becoming reality faster than anybody realized — we not only can transplant an entire arm now, but…
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The Pentagon's new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers…
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When she was five, Alannah Shevenell's doctors discovered the cause of her fever, weight loss, and distended belly—a…