You May Already Be Immune to CRISPRJanuary 9, 2018 |
The human immune system can hinder the gene-editing tool, though there could be ways around it
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Swedish Ethics Review Board: Macchiarini Is GuiltyOctober 31, 2017 |
The group calls for the retraction of six publications by surgeon Paolo Macchiarini regarding the synthetic trachea transplantations that led to the death of at least three patients
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Why People May Have Pig Organs Inside Them One DayAugust 25, 2017 |
More than 116,000 Americans are waiting to receive an organ transplant, and about 20 die each day during the wait. Scientists are eager to find solutions to the organ shortage
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We’ve Created Human-Pig Chimeras — But We Haven’t Weighed the EthicsJanuary 26, 2017 |
In the new work, led by investigators at the Salk Institute, researchers injected days-old pig embryos with human pluripotent stem cells. By the time the fetal pigs were aborted, they had begun to grow partly human organs
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Inside a North Carolina lab, row upon row of plastic bioreactor bags pulsate gently to the beat of an artificial heart. Within each bag, a lab-forged blood vessel slowly expands, feeding off a primordial cocktail of vitamins and proteins
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Scientists Just 3D Printed a Transplantable Human EarFebruary 16, 2016 |
Scientists have developed an innovative 3D bioprinter capable of generating replacement tissue that’s strong enough to withstand transplantation. To show its power, the scientists printed a jaw bone, muscle, and cartilage structures, as well as a stunningly accurate human ear.
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Human-Animal Chimeras Are Gestating on US Research FarmsJanuary 6, 2016 |
A radical new approach to generating human organs is to grow them inside pigs or sheep
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Lab-Grown Kidneys Work in AnimalsSeptember 22, 2015 |
Scientists say they are a step closer to growing fully functioning replacement kidneys, after promising results in animals
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