Transplantation: Japan authorizes research on human-animal hybrid embryos
For the first time, the Japanese government has given the green light for the cultivation of human cells in rat ...
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The Lille University Hospital succeeds in the first French transplant of a heart that has remained under perfusion for several hours
For the first time, a French cardiology team has succeeded in transplanting a heart that has remained perfused for several ...
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A heart printed in 3D from human tissue
Israeli researchers have managed to 3D print a prototype heart with cells and blood vessels from human tissue. This is ...
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Organ transplant: “invisible” stem cells capable of avoiding rejection
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have just developed the first pluripotent stem cells capable of bypassing the ...
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American undergoes face transplant after violent suicide attempt
A 26-year-old California man recently underwent a face transplant to reconstruct his deformed face following a suicide attempt. Cameron Underwood, ...
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Double face transplant: an extraordinary operation and a permanent risk of graft rejection
Grafted with a whole face in 2010, Jérôme Hamon underwent a second face transplant in January 2018 after the rejection ...
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Organ transplant: genetically modified pigs raise hope
Researchers at Havard Medical School have announced that they have succeeded in modifying more than 60 genes in pig embryos. ...
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Organ donation: 6,105 transplants were performed in France in 2017, 19% more than in 2013
6,105 organ transplants were performed in France in 2017, i.e. 3.5% more than in 2016 and 19% more than in ...
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Venezuela: transplant patients lack drugs and risk transplant rejection
The economic crisis that paralyzes Venezuela has resulted in a serious shortage of food and medicine. People with transplants do ...
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The surgeon who tattooed the liver of his patients escapes prison
The British surgeon accused of having his initials engraved on the liver of two patients has been sentenced to community ...
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Uterine transplant: first successful birth in the United States
In Dallas, a woman gave birth to a healthy child following a uterine transplant. This is the first time that ...
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Uterine transplant: eight births worldwide in three years
Since the first uterus transplant in Saudi Arabia in 2000, around 20 women around the world have benefited from uterine ...
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Organ transplants: GMO piglets raise new hopes
Piglets have been genetically modified in order to avoid the risk of transmission of a virus during organ transplantation to ...
Read moreTransplantation: pigs genetically modified to donate their organs
Researchers have succeeded in giving birth to 32 piglets genetically modified to rule out the risk of transmission of a ...
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Professor Christian Cabrol: death of the man with 1,500 transplants
Professor Christian Cabrol, one of the French pioneers in heart transplantation, died at the age of 91. He was part ...
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Transplant: nearly 23,000 patients waiting
The organ transplant activity continues to grow in France. Last year, 5,891 organs were transplanted, an increase of 2.5% from ...
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Transplantation: a method to better preserve organs
Scientists have invented a method to "thaw" the grafts without damaging them in order to avoid a lot of waste.When ...
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Air pollution: lung transplant patients more vulnerable
The follow-up of French patients who have had a lung transplant shows that they could be particularly vulnerable to the ...
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Hand transplants in Lyon: Professor Lantieri says he is surprised
A two-hand transplant was successfully performed in Lyon. But the operation, which took place in November, casts doubt on its ...
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Organ donation: presumed consent from January 1
Consent to organ donation will now be presumed. In case of refusal, the families will have to provide a written ...
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Transplant: Italian surgeons implant a kidney instead of the spleen
In a little girl with a rare kidney and abdominal blood vessel defect, surgeons had to transplant a kidney instead ...
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Lung transplant: a technique to double storage time
Thanks to a preservation technique, the lungs can be preserved for an additional 6 hours. A longer delay which in ...
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Kidney transplant: more and more living donors
Thanks to legal and medical advances, kidney transplants have evolved a lot in 2 decades. Developments that have made it ...
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Kidney transplant: the benefits of living donation
The Biomedicine Agency will carry out a national campaign to educate the general public and doctors about kidney transplants from ...
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Prof. Laurent Lantieri: the activity of face transplants must continue
VIDEO. After the disappearance of Isabelle Dinoire, Professor Laurent Lantieri ensures that the lack of money has put a stop ...
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Isabelle Dinoire: death of the first face transplant recipient
Isabelle Dinoire, the first patient in the world to benefit from a face transplant, died four months ago. She had ...
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Organ donation law: the number of transplants will increase
INTERVIEW - At the origin of a controversial amendment on organ donation, the deputy and transplanter Jean-Louis Touraine welcomes the ...
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Artificial heart: a new patient implanted in Nantes
The Carmat company announces that the first implantation within the framework of the PIVOT study was carried out on a ...
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Kidney transplant: the Toulouse University Hospital operates on obese people with a robot
Excluded from kidney transplantation due to severe obesity, 2 patients were transplanted using a surgical robot. This first in Europe ...
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Kidney transplant: privileged graduates
Access to kidney transplantation is uneven between educated and less educated patients. Registration on the waiting list tends to erase ...
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