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Surgeons Successfully Transplant a Pig Kidney into a Person
Surgeons Successfully Transplant a Pig Kidney into a Person
The achievement bolsters hopes that nonhuman animals could be used to remedy the shortage of transplantable organs.
The achievement bolsters hopes that nonhuman animals could be used to remedy the shortage of transplantable organs.
surgery, immunology
Uterus Transplants Hit the Clinic
Jef Akst | Aug 1, 2021 | 10+ min read
With human research trials resulting in dozens of successful deliveries in the US and abroad, doctors move toward offering the surgery clinically, while working to learn all they can about uterine and transplant biology from the still-rare procedure.
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