Solid organ transplantation during the coronavirus crisis
Solid-organ transplantation activity has decreased even in regions where COVID-19 [...]
Statement of ethicist and bishops after England starts the organ donation opt-out system
Opt-out law bioethical issues The opt-out law that presumes that [...]
“In vivo” brain tissue donation. Medical and bioethical approach
Until now, brain tissue donation for scientific studies was done [...]
“Death by donation” bioethical approach
The December 2019 issue of Bioethics News includes a report [...]
The production of functional artificial lungs offers new possibilities for transplantation
As recent findings suggest, the transplantation of lungs produced in [...]
A girl is born after a uterus transplant
The Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and the Baylor [...]
Scientists with 3D – bioink technique print a cornea that mimic human ones. Great hope to patients waiting for cornea donation
Science Daily published an article with the title, 3D printed [...]
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Japan approves the first experiments with human-animal embryos in order to produce organs for transplants GalleryJapan approves the first experiments with human-animal embryos in order to produce organs for transplants
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Japan approves the first experiments with human-animal embryos in order to produce organs for transplants
Scientist Hiromitsu Nakauchi is the first researcher in Japan to [...]
The discovery of the restoration of brain circulation hours post-mortem could change current paradigms of death criteria
A recent article published in Nature (volume 568, pages336–343 (2019) appears to [...]
World’s first kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV
See Video below Surgeons in Baltimore have performed what’s thought [...]