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This Lab-Grown Kidney Can Keep Rats — And Maybe Even You — Alive

For the first time ever, a whole lab-grown kidney has been successfully transplanted into a rat, where it allowed the creature to process urine like a really kidney would. And it could someday save your life.

27 April 2012

Science

One Kidney Has Been Inside Three People In Just Two Weeks

When Ray Fearing received a kidney from his sister, Cera, after a long battle with a disease which forms scar tissue on the kidney, he was extremely relieved. Sadly, his condition worsened, and the doctors had no choice but to remove the kidney. But it went on to find itself inside a third patient.

23 April 2012

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Here’s How Much Body Parts Cost On The Black Market

If you were ever curious as to how much body parts can fetch on the black market, Medical Transcription created a snazzy infographic to show you. Some parts are shockingly cheap! Like would you want a new shoulder or a new iPad? Both cost 500 bucks.

1 March 2012

Science

Russian Mogul Plans To Plant Our Brains In Robots And Keep Them Alive Forever

The Pentagon’s new Avatar project, unveiled by Danger Room a few weeks back, sounds freaky enough: Soldiers practically inhabiting the bodies of robots, who’d act as “surrogates” for their human overlords in battle.

3 February 2012

Science

This Nine-Year-Old Girl Just Had Six Of Her Organs Replaced—That’s A Record

When she was five, Alannah Shevenell’s doctors discovered the cause of her fever, weight loss, and distended belly — a sizable tumour spreading throughout her body. After two failed surgeries and rounds of chemo, her doctors had just one option left; a risky surgery to replace six of her cancerous organs.

1 September 2011

Science

A Beating Heart In A Box Looks Terrifying, Could Save Your Life

If I ever needed a heart transplant, seeing a living, tell-tale heart before before my eyes would probably scare me to death. But TransMedic’s unique organ care system could prove to keep that heart fresher for longer until you need it.

12 July 2011

Science

Double Leg Transplant Gives Man A Chance To Walk Again

Some may see despair when they look upon a double amputee in a wheelchair, but Spanish Surgeon Pedro Cavadas saw an opportunity.

8 July 2011

Science

Surgeons Perform World’s First Synthetic Organ Transplant

For the first time in history, a patient has been implanted with a synthetic windpipe that was created using the patient’s stem cells and a replica of his original windpipe. It’s amazing even though it kinda looks like PVC piping

14 June 2011

Science

Daughter Could Get Mom’s Uterus In World’s First Womb Transplant

A mum and daughter are poised to make medical history – the daughter, born without a uterus, could receive her mother’s as a transplant. [Jezebel]

5 March 2011

Science

The Story Of The Dog Head Transplants And The Giant Dogbot That Never Was

This is the story of the giant robot dog that never was. According to recently unearthed – and completely fake – scientific papers posted in Russian forum Stepashka, the Soviets took over where the Nazis and Dr Frankenstein left it: During the 1950s, a team of communist scientists from Moscow University and the Soviet Academy of Sciences lead by Dr Vladimir Demikhov worked on the creation of a giant robot controlled by a dog head in secret facilities created by Joseph Stalin.

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