Transplant News
World Organ Donation Day is observed every year on August 13 to encourage people to become an organ donor and to clear up misconceptions about organ donation.
This segment of DNA brings you information related to today's history.
Due to lack of awareness, there are myths and fears in people's minds about organ donation.
In the study, published in the journal Science, the researchers removed the virus genes from the pig genome using CRISPR-Cas 9 – a gene editing tool – in live animals.
Organ transplantation have come from 23 brain dead people in the city in last 21 months.
The 38-year-old Sangeeta Mahajan, who had met with an accident on July 17, had suffered a serious head injury after being hit by a two-wheeler in Jalgaon.
The mini human heart was created by introducing human cells into the matrix of a whole rat heart.
Mitchell was initially reluctant towards the transplant, but later decided to go for it.
Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre here performed the first robotic kidney transplant surgery on a man suffering from renal failure, a hospital spokesperson said on Tuesday.
Azariah Malala and Lilaz Bakhtiyar from Fiji and Iraq are suffering from congenital liver defects, forms of Biliary atresia.
The infant was diagnosed with Glycogen Storage disease, which prevented his growth.
A five-hour successful surgery later, both patients are doing well, the doctors said.
A team of doctors successfully performed a womb transplant on a 21-year-old woman on Thursday at a hospital in Pune.
The woman, who is a Solapur resident and is unable to conceive it due to absence of uterus, is being operated at Pune’s Galaxy Care Laparoscopy Institute (GCLI) by a team of 12 doctors.
Banin Mohammad Humza, a 15-year-old girl from Iraq, underwent a stem cell transplant in a private hospital in India.
Facial transplantation is the process of removing part or all of a donor's face and attaching it onto a patient who has previously suffered facial injury or deformity.
In a significant medical breakthrough and a first in the world, doctors at Kochi hospital performed a dual live-donor transplant on a 20-month-old girl, who weighs just seven kgs on Saturday.
While the liver and kidneys were transplanted to patients at KMCH, the heart was sent to a private hospital in Chennai.
A resident of Mahidpur in Ujjain district, Vishwas Joshi, 40, was declared brain-dead in Choithram Hospital here on Monday evening.
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