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Cancer patients weren’t responding to therapy. Then they got a poop transplant.
The gut microbiome may be critical to immunotherapy. Source: https://www.livescience.com/poop-transplants-melanoma-immunotherapy.html
The First Pig-to-Human Organ Transplants Could Happen This Year
Every day in the United States, 17 people die waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. To address this crisis, one biotech company is turning to an unlikely source: pigs. Maryland-based United Therapeutics says it plans to begin transplanting organs from genetically modified pigs into people as soon as this year. From a report: “We’re right on that cusp. We’re looking to…
Landmark transplant in 1960s Virginia performed with heart stolen from a Black man
A groundbreaking heart transplant in Virginia in 1968, one of the first in the world, was performed using the heart of a Black patient that was taken without his family’s knowledge. Source: https://www.livescience.com/the-organ-thieves-historic-heart-transplant.html
Book excerpt: ‘The Organ Thieves’ (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
White surgeons racing to perform a pioneering transplant in 1968 took a Black patient’s heart — but didn’t tell his family. Source: https://www.livescience.com/the-organ-thieves-book-excerpt.html
First COVID-19 double-lung transplant patient goes home
The 28-year-old has a good outlook for recovery, her surgeon said. Source: https://www.livescience.com/double-lung-transplant-covid19-home.html
Damaged human lungs revived for transplant by connecting them to a pig
Donated human lungs that are too damaged to use for transplant can be returned to a usable state by connecting them to a pig’s blood supply for 24 hours Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248535-damaged-human-lungs-revived-for-transplant-by-connecting-them-to-a-pig/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Woman with COVID-19 receives double-lung transplant in a first
In a first, a young COVID-19 patient has received a double-lung transplant after the coronavirus ravaged her lungs. Source: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-double-lung-transplant.html
10 Tips On How To Keep Plants Alive During Summer Time
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Mouse embryos that are 4 per cent human are step towards spare organs
Mouse embryos injected with human stem cells grew for 17 days created chimeras with up to 4 per cent human cells, a step towards growing human organs for transplant Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2243336-mouse-embryos-that-are-4-per-cent-human-are-step-towards-spare-organs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…