The former thoracic surgeon was acquitted on two counts of intentional assault but convicted on a single count of felony bodily injury for a series of fatal procedures in the early 2010s.

The achievement bolsters hopes that nonhuman animals could be used to remedy the shortage of transplantable organs.

Her work led to more predictable outcomes for kidney transplants.

Researchers determined that when introduced into damaged mouse or donated human livers, these lab-grown tissues could integrate into bile ducts and function normally.

By revealing that animals could develop immune responses against their own tissues, the physician-scientist established an entirely new field of science.

Researchers can print cells and biomaterials that make up human tissues, but there’s still a long way to go before fully functional organs can be made to order.

Skin is much easier to create using 3-D printing than intestines.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.

Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.

The girl was born in Brazil in December 2017.

The devices, which could one day treat children with esophageal atresia and short bowel, were recently tested in pigs.

After losing his genitals in a roadside bomb explosion, the soldier endured a 14-hour surgery to have a donated penis, scrotum, and partial abdominal wall attached.

The goal is to house patients’ follicles in a specially designed tissue matrix and reinsert them after treatment.

The group calls for the retraction of six publications by surgeon Paolo Macchiarini regarding the synthetic trachea transplantations that led to the death of at least three patients. 

The study could pave the way for transplanting porcine organs to humans without the risk of reigniting endogenous retroviruses.

The cell-surface receptor, SIRP-alpha, initiates the innate immune response in hosts.  

Thomas Starzl performed the first successful human liver transplant in 1967 and went on to help develop drugs that improved survival for organ transplant patients.

While the hope is to one day grow organs for transplantation into people, several technical and ethical challenges remain.

Understanding postmortem gene expression could help researchers improve organ transplants and time-of-death estimates, according to studies on mice and zebrafish.