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Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's are not contagious
Despite concerns that faulty brain proteins can be passed from one person to another during treatment, a new US study shows non-infectious Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, a…
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American soldiers lose their armored limbs
Speaking at a press conference on Jan. 29, Brendan Marrocco, the name of the veteran, said he felt like he had regained himself after this rare surgery.
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IPS cells do not cause rejection in experimental mice
According to an article published online by the British scientific journal Nature, Japanese scientists found no rejection reactions in experimental rats after implantati…
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Walk normally with an artificial heart
While waiting for a heart transplant, a man in California (USA) still walks normally with an artificial heart in his chest.
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Russia successfully assembled the latest artificial heart valve model
Russian heart surgeons have successfully transplanted the world's latest artificial heart valve model by self-study and fabrication by scientists in the country.
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Sweden implants the uterus from mother to child
The Swedish University of Gothenburg on September 18 said the two women in the country had received a new uterus over the weekend, in the world's first mother to daughte…
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Protein implants bring hope to infertility
According to a new study in the UK, transplanting a missing protein into sperm of infertility can help bring fertility and significantly increase the rate of successful…
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Breakthrough in transplanting stem cells from dead people
Press room of the Czech Academy of Sciences on September 10 said that for the first time in the world, scientists from the country have proved that it is possible to tra…
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The first liver-kidney concurrent transplant in Japan
At the press conference on September 2, Professor Takahito Yagi in charge of this organ transplant said:
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Two more people escape the HIV virus
Researchers at Brigham and Boston Women's Hospital have found that, after a bone marrow transplant, two men have completely cleared the HIV virus in their blood.
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3D blood vessels
Scientists have built 3D blood vessels that can effectively support artificial organs. Cultivating artificial organs may help solve the shortage of implants, but a major…
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Create human liver from stem cells
According to the Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan) on June 8, the team led by Professor Hideki Taniguchi at Yokohama City University has developed pluripotent stem cells (iPS) into
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Successfully grafted two arms from another
A Mexican man became the first patient in Latin America to have two arms by transplanting from another person's arms. Dr. Martin Iglesias, head of surgery at the Mexican…
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Successfully implanted the world's smallest artificial heart
According to a spokesman for Bambino Gesu Hospital in Rome (Italy), in March, doctors at the hospital conducted the world's smallest artificial heart transplant for a ba…
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The world's fastest liver transplant
UK doctors have performed liver transplantation which is considered the fastest in the history of world medicine - when performing all tests and surgery within 3 days af…