Tag Archives: transplant

In a Medical First, Infertile Daughter Will Receive Uterus From Mother (video)

Throughout her early childhood Sara Ottosson appeared perfectly healthy. It was only when she reached her teenage years and failed [...]

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Woman Speaks With Her Own Voice After Larynx Transplant

After eleven years, Brenda Jensen is finally able to speak with her own voice, but she’s using someone else’s larynx [...]

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A Tale of Two Windpipes – Determining the Future of Organ Transplants

Two very different organ transplant stories highlight the amazing skills of surgeons, and the importance of stem cells for the [...]

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Tooth Transplanted into Eye Helps Cure Blindness

When you are blind and trying to restore your sight, you’ll try anything. I mean, anything. US doctors have recently [...]

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The AbioCor Artificial Heart

Earlier on Singularity Hub, we took a detailed look into the magic of heart replacement surgery (and even growing hearts [...]

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TransMedics: Transplanting a Real Beating Heart

You’ve heard a bit about heart transplants and they’re no piece of cake, but now there’s a company out there [...]

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Man Receives First US Double Hand Transplant

Ten years ago, Jeff Kepner lost both his hands and feet to a bacterial infection. Today, he is recovering from [...]

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Donated Lungs Breathing Outside the Body (Video)

Pop quiz!  What’s weirder than dead organs sitting around in glass jars?  Live organs moving around in glass domes. For [...]

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