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They’ve Done it: Doctors Have Grown a New Nose on This Boy’s Face

July 5, 2016 Victoria Simpson

Want a new look? Not sure about surgery? You may soon have a new option. In yet another amazing advancement in medical sciences, doctors can now successfully grow a new nose on a person’s forehead. A report on bbc.com is…

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Forget Organ Transplants – China Wants to do Full-Body Transplants

June 13, 2016 Alex Kozovski

To help people who are fully paralyzed, doctors in China are willing to go to extreme, almost sci-fi-ish lengths. Scientists want to do full-body transplants, which is exactly what it sounds like – replacing every part of the human body.…

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University Scientists are Printing Living Body Parts

February 16, 2016 Alex Kozovski

Researchers from Wake Forest University are combining living human cells together with a special gel, ‘printing’ living human body parts. This is the closest – and most advanced – attempt at recreating various human parts like ears, muscles, and jawbones.…

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First US Organ Transplant From an HIV-Positive Donor to be Done at Johns Hopkins

February 10, 2016 Alex Kozovski

For the first time in America, a kidney and liver transplant between two HIV-positive patients will be performed at Johns Hopkins University. If the procedure is successful, scientists and doctors will have the green light to continue similar HIV-positive transplants…

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The U.S.’s First Ever Penis Transplants Planned for Wounded Troops

December 7, 2015 Alex Kozovski

Within the next year, soldiers with gruesome injuries from war will get the opportunity to have an operation never before performed in the United States: a penis transplant. The surgeons planning the operations, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine…

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This New Device Could Revive Dead Hearts

October 6, 2015 Alex Kozovski

Transplant organs have always been cooled to help preserve them. With this new device, warm is where it’s at – at least for hearts. A new device, the Organ Care System, or ‘heart in a box’, is a new heart-storage system…