Tag: TRANSPLANT

Approximately 2,000 hearts become available for transplants every year, but the waiting list of recipients consistently numbers close to 3,000. That shortage leaves many ailing people with no choice but to wait and hope for their names to be called. To combat the agonizing uncertainty, several international organizations continue to focus on developing artificial hearts that can at least help ...

Some musicians have criticized Twitter for being the "highest form of narcissism," but, over the last few weeks, Twitter users have given thousands of reasons to prove that the microblogging community will overwhelmingly come to the aid of others. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, with the help of the band Jane's Addiction, has managed to raise $850,000, thanks in part to Twitter, for a fan in ...

Remember all the hype around stem cells? They were going to cure diseases, grow body parts, and allow us to create a race of soulless cloned underlings. Well, now that some of the controversy has died down and research has had a chance to advance, stem cells are starting to bear some fruit. A woman from Barcelona has become the first patient to receive an organ transplant that was grown in a ...