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Since 2017, all French citizens will become donors
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Italy: Kidney transplants into the world's first spleen position
Italian doctors have successfully performed kidney transplants into the spleen position of a 6-year-old girl. This is considered the first medical achievement in the wor…
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The first transplant patient will become familiar with the new body with virtual reality
An American company makes virtual reality systems that help early transplant patients familiarize themselves with body movement after the surgery is completed.
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Life after one year of the first baby is paired
Through a history of two-handed transplantation, 9-year-old Zion Harvey (USA) has now done what she never thought she could, from throwing balls to banana trees.
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The first man implanted both hands in England
Two-handed metal presses cut off hands three years ago, and Chris King first successfully implanted both hands in the UK.
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Artificial bone from transplanted pig cells for humans
American scientists for the first time successfully replicated artificial bone from pig cells, opening hope for clinical application.
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Hundreds of genes remain active after the body dies
When the human heart and brain are no longer fighting for life, the respiratory and circulatory systems have to stop, that is the moment of death.
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The implant has a hand that is nourished on the leg
The transplant, which lasted more than 10 hours, completely restored the arm to a knife-cut worker in 2013.
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The boy lived for more than a year without a heart in his body
Before conducting heart transplant surgery, a 25-year-old American man must wear a 24/7 artificial heart backpack throughout 555 days.
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Baboons carry pig hearts for more than two years
German and American scientists can maintain pig hearts inside a baboon for more than two years, creating a breakthrough in the field of organ transplants.
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First organ transplant for HIV-infected people
Abcnews reported that doctors in Maryland's Johns Hopkins Medicine Hospital have successfully performed the world's first liver and kidney transplant between donors and…
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Complete the first uterine transplant in the United States
On February 24, the first US uterine transplant surgery ended successfully after 9 hours.
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The US approves organ transplants from HIV-infected patients
Previously, a transplanted kidney from an HIV patient to another HIV patient was performed in South Africa and it has also been shown to save lives of transplant recipie…
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Humans will be able to use pig heart instead of human heart thanks to this genetic technique
Last November, scientists presented the progress of this idea in a workshop at the National Institutes of Health and Health Research (Maryland).
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Crazy experiments
Admittedly, experimentation and experimentation are an important mandatory step not to be ignored in bringing humanity to new heights.