The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded at least $2.7 million to a University of Pittsburgh program that sought to create a “tissue hub” sourced from aborted fetuses ranging from six to 42 weeks’ gestation. Forty-two weeks equates to more than 10 months of pregnancy. Details about …
Read More »Fraternity hazing victim’s organs are being donated after extreme incident at Ohio university
The student has been identified as 20-year Stone Foltz who was hospitalized after an off-campus Pi Kappa Alpha event Thursday near Bowling Green State University. Foltz remains in critical condition and on life support having been airlifted to ProMedica Toledo Hospital. “Not all the facts are out yet, the investigation …
Read More »NHS doctors transplant hearts in children using re-animated organs in world first
Surgeons at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire revived stopped hearts and used them successfully in multiple, pioneering transplant operations by employing a heart-in-a-box machine designed to replicate the conditions inside the human body. So far, a total of six patients, aged between 12 and 16, have benefitted from the …
Read More »Poroshenko approved the law on transplantation of organs
Under the law, any person will be able to transfer the right to transplant organs after his death. President Petro Poroshenko has signed the law on organ transplantation. A corresponding note in the card bill appeared on Wednesday, June 20. The document provides that the person wishing to become a …
Read More »Unusual sensory organs in different animals. Photo
Nature knows how to surprise. The only way of understanding the world is through our senses. Therefore, the senses are the basis for understanding what is happening around us. It is considered that we have five senses, but in reality there are at least nine, maybe more, depending on what …
Read More »In Sweden on the 3D printer began to print human organs
The cost biochannel varies from 9 to $ 299. The founder of a startup Cellink Eric Gatenholm showed that human organs can be printed on a special 3D printer. 28-year-old Gatenholm sure that 20 years from using this technology to create organs for transplantation to people. In Cellink produces so-called …
Read More »The Swedes learned how to print human organs on a 3D printer
The founder is sure that after some time, so it will be possible to create organs for transplantation to people. The founder of a startup Cellink Eric Gatenholm showed that human organs can be printed on a special 3D printer. 28-year-old Gatenholm sure that 20 years from using this technology …
Read More »Experts said that when people begin to “print” organs
Reportedly, two years later, the seal bodies will be commonplace. This forecast was presented by consulting company Gartner. In three years the market for medical 3D printing will exceed $1 billion, and 3D printers will use in each third of the operation. Overview of the future market has prepared the …
Read More »Russia has been trying to sell live human organs
For this, the criminals got 1,5 million rubles Two residents of Taganrog was trying to sell live human organs. On Thursday, August 31, reports the official representative of the Prosecutor of the region Elizabeth Komakhidze. According to investigators, the suspects inside the hotel room of one of the hotels in …
Read More »Scientists have named five unnecessary organs
Scientists announced the list of five agencies in which modern man no longer needs. Among the so-called “rudiments” carried the coccyx, Appendix, wisdom teeth, ear muscles and third eyelid. Researchers say that first of all the bodies on this list have been necessary for human survival, but in modern conditions …
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