The team at eGenesis is using CRISPR to address this risk. “You can use CRISPR-Cas9 to inactivate the 50 to 70 copies of retrovirus in the...
Traditionally, surgeons have been able to perform heart transplants using organs from individuals on life support, even if they have been declared brain dead. The heart...
A long COVID patient is speaking up and sharing her harrowing experience with the lingering condition that has made breathing difficult for her. Treva Taylor, 57,...
We are arguably a long way off from transplanting miniature brain blobs into people (although some have tried putting them in rodents). But we are getting...
One unexpected bonus was that the implant changed the shape of the cornea enough for its recipients to wear contact lenses for the best possible vision,...
A patient who received a donated liver that had been stored for three days in a new type of machine that mimics the human body is...
“In the US, 70% of [donor livers] are not used. Whether we can rescue that 70%, I don’t know,” Clavien says. “But it’s exciting to try...
A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell...
Shortly after fans expressed outrage that a recent episode of TV series The Good Fight had a joke about Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant, the singer herself...
I never thought I’d be getting a hair transplant. But then came my 30s, and the realization that my once-thick pelt was thinning, fast. It happened...
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