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A Stone Age individual’s left leg healed after being amputated just above the foot, allowing them to survive for six to nine years after the procedure was performed, researchers say.

An ear made from the person’s own cells was surgically attached in March, the company behind the technology says.

Multiple clinical trial participants who have severe spinal injuries were able to stand, walk, and perform specific activities after just one day of using an implant surgically embedded in their spines.

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

Scientists are banking various samples from recipients of donated uteruses to learn all they can about the biology of the organ, and about transplantation more generally.

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.

A study that compared several anesthetic regimens in rodents showed that only one—inhaled isoflurane—wasn’t detrimental to the activity of neurons in the hippocampus.

The findings may have implications for radiotherapy, a cancer treatment that can cause damage to salivary glands and leave lasting complications.

The bioactive coating tethers restorative proteins to implanted tissues and fosters new growth, animal studies suggest.

Watch surgeon Calvin Coffey deliver a TEDx talk on his recent discovery that the large abdominal tissue is a single, coordinated structure.

A clinical trial is underway to see if suspended animation, in which the body is cooled to 10–15 °Celsius, could slow patients’ decline and give doctors time to operate.

A small study finds that patients who had half their brains removed to treat epilepsy have stronger neural networks than controls, perhaps explaining how they can retain language and cognition skills.

By bringing genetics into clinical medicine, the University of British Columbia medical geneticist helped to identify the gene mutations responsible for many rare diseases.

Technology is enabling increasingly lifelike models of organs to help doctors practice operations.

The Howard University surgeon was the first African American president of the American Cancer Society and mentored thousands of medical students.

The robotic catheter can guide its own movements within the heart of a live mammal to the site of a leaky valve replacement.

The drugs lead to widespread, predictable changes in brain waves that can help anesthesiologists personalize anesthesia and develop anesthetic-based treatments.

Drugs that doctors use to sedate patients during traumatic medical procedures act on neural receptors to alter brain activity.

Now two years old, the Delaney twins were born joined at the head and were successfully separated in June 2017.