(Photo: Tareq Salahuddin)The event is called a kid...  ...nsplant chain. It's a sequence of carefully-timed transplants that match donors and recipients for compatibilit...  ...isco completed 18 surgeries carrying out 9 kidney transplants , all of which were successful. It was an unusuall...  ...ent from Califor...

(Photo: The Lancet)3 years ago, I mentioned that researchers in Sweden were planning the world's first uterus transplant. This would have offered new options for women for whom fertility is a lost cause. According to Dr....

(Photos: Brandy Angel Photography)Raleigh Callaway...  ...help Callaway, 125 are still being considered for transplants for other patients.-via Huffington Post

(Photo: China Daily)11-year old Liang Yaoyi of Sh...  ...heal the sick. Before he died, he asked that his organs be donated to people who need transplants . Within eight hours of his death, his kidneys and...

(Photo of vaginal scaffold by Dr. Yuanyuan Zhang)M...  ...ted them in patients. More than 8 years after the transplants , those vaginas are fully functional.The researche...  ...ieces of flesh. Then they implanted those nascent organs in patients along a biodegradable scaffolding tha...  ...hat provided a champa...

(Photo: Penny Smith)Although it doesn’t have the same effect as holding up the heart of one your enemies, this is still pretty badass. But dealing with hardship with good spirits has always been Penny Smith’s...

Organ transplants saves lives, but there aren't enough suitable and...  ...s, but there aren't enough suitable and available organs for those who need them. There just aren't enough...  ...outh Africa, are looking at ways around the human organ shortage problem.Faced with this c...

Italian doctors implanted an artificial heart that weighed only 11 grams, making it the smallest ever used. It kept the child alive long enough to receive a human heart: "In March, the smallest artificial heart in the...