A team from institutions across Canada and China has managed to create a 'universal' kidney, which can, in theory, be accepted by any patient. Their test organ survived and functioned for several days in the body of a brain-dead recipient, whose family consented to the research.


Kidney can match any patient, no matter the blood type

In a medical breakthrough, a woman's type 1 diabetes has been reversed in China through the world's first stem cell transplant. In the treatment, these cells were converted into personalized stem cells, which were used for growing hormone-producing cells or 'islets' in the liver and pancreas, which regulate the amount of sugars in the body.

Breakthrough! World's first stem cell transplant cures type 1 diabetes in Chinese woman

A heart made of titanium has been successfully implanted. It is an artificial metal-based device that resembles a heart and uses the same technology as high-speed rail lines. Molly Gambhir telling you more.

Metal heart made of titanium successfully implanted

For medical science, it was a leap forward in the first full voice box transplant for an active cancer patient. For Marty Kedian, it was an emotional moment as he got his voice back, and was able to talk to his dear ones, thanks to the medical miracle.

Cancer patient gets voice back with total larynx transplant: 'I could talk to my 82-year-old mother...'

Is the US organ transplant program racist? Well the question arises because the US organ transplant program has announced that they're stopping the use of race based algorithm. Watch in for more details!

US: Hospital algorithm delays transplant for African-Americans

In 8-year-old girl received a special type of kidney transplant and she doesn't have to take immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of her life. Molly Gambhir telling you more.

Gravitas: Medical breakthrough changes life of eight-year-old girl

the United Kingdom has made medical history as there was a womb transplant carried out. The first womb transplant was done on a 34-year-old woman and this case has become the first in the country where a woman received a womb from a donor.

UK's first ever womb transplant as sister donates uterus

All that balding Indian television executive Athar Rasheed wanted was to look handsome and get married. But the 30-year-old's seemingly harmless hair transplant went fatally wrong.

Seemingly harmless hair transplant turns fatally wrong for India's Athar Rasheed

In a study, it was found that organ donation from dying donors who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 is safe and does not cause COVID-19 in the patient receiving the organ donation.

Transplantation of organs from deceased COVID-19 patients is safe and possible. Here's how

An ailing Maryland man who received a pig’s heart last week in a pioneering transplant procedure has a criminal record stemming from an assault 34 years ago in which he repeatedly stabbed a young man, leaving him paralyzed.

Patient in ground-breaking heart transplant has a violent criminal record

In what can be called a first-of-its-kind surgery, a man in the US has got a genetically modified pig heart in transplant. The 57-year-old man is doing well three days after the operation, University of Maryland Medicine said in a news release on Monday.

In a first, man gets genetically modified pig heart in transplant

A man in the United States has now become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig. It was a bit of a do-or-die situation, that prompted the American medical regulator to grant permission for this experimental surgery.

United States: First pig to human heart transplant, a game-changer for organ transplants

A marathon seven-hour long surgery involving eight doctors and 24 nurses was performed in the southern Indian city of Chennai to save the life of a 4-year old whose small intestine had stopped functioning.

Chennai: Father donates small intestine to 4-year-old son, both safe after transplant surgery 

A human heart was flown nearly 700 km, the distance between two southern Indian cities, Kochi in Kerala and Chennai in Tamil Nadu, to save the life of a 51-year-old patient.

India: Docs, cops facilitate 700-km rapid transport of human heart for transplant

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