organ transplants
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The Segway’s Inventor Wants to Mass-Produce Human Organs — Yes, You Read That Right
You remember the Segway, the two-wheeled device that required a gymnastics-level of balance to ride standing upright? Its inventor is currently working on an incredibly ambitious project to create a massive lab for growing human organs — once the FDA approves lab-grown organs for human transplant, of course. There’s still a long way to go…
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Japan Approves Scientist’s Plan To Create World’s First Humanimals
For the first time, a government is supporting a plan to create animal embryos with human cells and bring them to term, resulting in a type of humanimal known as a human-animal chimera.
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This Leave-A-Kidney Take-A-Kidney Plan Is So Weird It Might Just Work
For many people, life on the organ transplant list is a death sentence. The numbers just don’t add up. Right now, there are 75,421 active candidates on the wait list in the US. So far this year, there have been 10,869 organ donations. Many of the people on that wait list will die.
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Baboon Survives Nearly Three Years With A Pig’s Heart And Humans Might Be Next
Using genetic techniques and a chemical cocktail, scientists managed to sustain a pig’s heart inside a baboon for 945 days, establishing a new benchmark for cross-species transplantation. If extended to humans, the technique could be used to ease the ongoing organ shortage.