Organ Transplant

Two-year study to analyse how COVID-19 vaccines affect people with weakened immunity

Dozens of French hospitals have launched a two-year study with 10,000 people to find out how people respond to coronavirus immunisation.

Do COVID-19 vaccines provide protection to organ transplant recipients as well?

A report states that transplant recipients may fare better after the second dose but prior studies show the first shot is enough to kickstart antibody production.

Lungs 'too far gone' for transplants revived in a day using pig's blood in remarkable study

The technique could rescue some, if not most, of the 80 percent of lungs offered for transplant that are unusable.

Unmanned drone delivers donor kidney for transplant to a patient in a medical first

University of Maryland has taken the phrase 'Fly High' to a new level with its aerial delivery of human organs.

Researchers are now very close to growing made-to-order kidneys for humans

Researchers have been working on ways to grow healthy organs outside the human body.

China's organ transplant system feted despite doubts around transparency

China banned the use of executed prisoners' organs in 2015 and has set up a nationwide voluntary donation system instead.

Organ transplant from animals may increase life span of humans but could risk quality of health

The increasing demand for organs, tissues, and cells, and the dearth of available human organs, have focused scientific interest in taking organs from animals.

Days of sutures past: US man's penis operation highlights future of organ transplants

A 64-year-old cancer patient has received the US' first penis transplant in a groundbreaking operation

Organ donation programme gets a boost after teen's parents donate her organs, save three lives

Mumbai's organ donation programme got a fresh boost when 16-year-old Kejal Pandey's family agreed to donate her kidneys and liver

Scientists develop 3D printer capable of producing human tissue

A group of US scientists have successfully transplanted living tissue constructed by a sophisticated and improved 3D printer, according to a study released on Monday by British scientific journal Nature.