Stem cell study offers clues for optimizing bone marrow transplants and more
Credit: Figure by Jiya Eerdeng/Rong Lu Lab/USC Stem Cell Bone marrow transplants, which involve transplanting healthy blood stem cells, offer ...
Tag: Transplantation
First pregnancy after robot-assisted uterus transplant
The well-known research on uterine transplantation in Gothenburg is now supported by robotic surgery. This change has made operating on ...
New method to study biomechanical changes in tissues after laser surgery
Although currently laser surgery is a very popular tool for various vision disorders correction, it is still difficult to ensure ...
What does 'dead' mean?
Credit: Brainscape 17, by Susan Aldworth, 2006, etching and aquatint, 30 x 25 cms. Private collection/Bridgeman Images Should death be ...
Split liver transplants could safely help sickest children
Analysis of donors, recipients and surgical approaches reveals optimal combinations In a review of registry data for more than 5,300 ...
Harvard's Wyss Institute commences project to identify means to induce a state of suspended animation
High-risk initiative aims to develop 'Time-Tolerant Biostasis Therapeutics' that slow down critical processes in the human body to gain time ...
Study affirms geographic discrimination in allocating lungs for transplant
Court filing prompted change in allocation policy in 2017 to make the system fairer, but system still may discriminate Results ...
CELLINK and Prellis Biologics offer first bioprinter capable of printing microstructures
Partnership creates holographic bioprinting systems capable of printing vascular networks and capillaries with resolution not seen with any other bioprinting ...
Kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury suitable for transplant
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Organ procurement teams are sometimes leery of accepting kidneys from deceased donors with acute kidney injury ...
Breakthrough in blood vessel engineering
Gleghorn Lab first to grow functional network of blood vessels at centimeter scaleCredit: Photo by Evan Krape When someone has ...
St. Jude research into leukemia, sickle cell and other blood disorders presented at ASH
The 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology will include research from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital that ...