Not enough human organs are available for all the people who need life-saving transplants, despite longstanding efforts to solve the problem. So scientists are turning to a new group of potential ...

Access to a donor organ can be the difference between life and death for thousands of individuals each year. Unfortunately, the demand for organs outstrips the supply. There are currently more than ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers hope to receive an approval to begin clinical trials. In a world first, researchers at the University of British ...

WASHINGTON — The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they're increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that ...

With too few organs to go around to satisfy the demand for transplants, scientists are now pinning their hopes on the possibility of 3D-printing technology. In the United States alone, there are an ...

Organ transplants can be life-saving, but the need to match blood types means many people are left on long waiting lists while organs go to waste. Scientists at Cambridge have now demonstrated a ...

A study has proved that it is possible to convert blood type safely in donor organs intended for transplantation. This finding is an important step towards creating universal type O organs, which ...

An organ transplant is a complex surgical procedure in which an organ that’s failing is replaced with a healthy one from either a deceased or live donor. In 2023, there were more than 46,000 organ ...