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Cell injections could train the body to accept a transplanted organ

2 August 2019

Organ donations save lives but require the recipient to take drugs that prevent rejection – in future, cell injections may train the body to accept the new organ

My liver, your kidney: The world's first non-identical organ swap

9 May 2019

To get her mother a new kidney, Aliana Deveza instigated the world’s first swap of different organs between living donors, donating half her liver to a stranger

Exhibition previews: Visions of a better tomorrow brighten 2019

2 January 2019

Plug-and-play human organs, non-human intelligences and missions to Mars add speculative spice to a year of cultural events focused on the future

Baboons live for months after getting genetically modified pig hearts

5 December 2018

Genetically modified pig hearts have kept baboons alive for more than 90 days, a threshold that may now allow trials of this type of transplantation in people

First baby born thanks to womb transplant from deceased donor

5 December 2018

A woman has successfully given birth after receiving a uterus taken from a dead person. The success could make womb transplants much more widely available

Faecal swaps could help stop heart transplants from being rejected

4 October 2018

Giving mice a faecal transplant made them more tolerant of a subsequent heart transplant, hinting the gut may be key to avoiding organ rejection

An opt-out organ donor system might actually lead to fewer transplants

16 August 2018

England’s plans to make everyone an organ donor by default could make families less likely to give consent, perhaps leading to a fall in transplant operations

Bio-engineered lungs are the first successful organs made in the lab

1 August 2018

Pigs have been able to breathe using lungs made in the lab. This is the most successful complex organ to be bioengineered yet – but there’s one big step left