A Michigan resident has died after contracting rabies through a recent organ transplant. We don’t know which organ was ...

Auckland deputy mayor Desley Simpson recently suffered from a painful shingles infection she likened to having "a hedgehog ...

In a medical first, a research team in China has successfully stitched a CRISPR gene-edited pig liver into a brain-dead ...

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The ...

A Michigan patient died of rabies earlier this year after contracting the virus through an organ transplant, health officials said.

Uttar Pradesh lags in organ transplants, with only 1 kidney and 4 liver cadaver transplants in 2022, highlighting a critical gap in awareness and infrastructure. When it comes to organ transplants ...

eGenesis, based in Cambridge, Mass., developed the pig kidneys used in recent transplants. Kidneys are the most in-demand organ for solid organ transplants in Canada. According to the Canadian ...

Sutfin said that, generally, infections associated with organ and tissue transplants are "exceptionally rare" and affect less than 1% of all transplants. There are two previous known instances of ...

“This is what we call a ‘bridge therapy’”. Globally, there were more than 41,000 liver transplants in 2023. But organ shortages mean many patients wait months for a donation, which can be ...

The study is part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human whole organ transplants, in a practice known as "xenotransplantation". Researchers, particularly in the US and China ...

Other researchers also hailed the breakthrough but emphasized that this early step could not confirm whether the pig organ would work as a replacement for human livers. Transplants of livers have ...