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History of transplant breakthroughs: from hearts to hands … and heads?

After surgeons perform first womb transplant in UK, we look at other major advances through the years Surgeons have performed the first womb transplant in the UK, it has been announced. The 34-year-old recipient received her sister’s uterus in an operation in February at Churchill hospital in Oxford that took nine hours and 20 minutes. …

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Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time

Hybrid organs raise prospect of fully human body parts being grown inside animals for transplants Scientists have grown humanised kidneys in pigs, raising the prospect of human organs being grown inside animals. The research involved creating human-pig chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. When transferred into surrogate pig mothers, the developing …

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