organ transplants
GLP Podcast: Science ‘flip-flops’; Pig-to-human organ transplants; Glyphosate lawsuits and tort reform
An expert advisory panel recently revised the decades-old recommendation to take aspirin daily to prevent a first heart attack or ...
Transplant shortage? Don’t generate human organs in animals, use stem cell technology to develop organoids
Xenotransplantation experiments, generating human organs in animals for transplantation, are being conducted in sheep, pigs, and, recently, in nonhuman primates ...
Human-animal chimeric embryos in Japan: Growing human pancreas in a rat, suitable for transplant
The Japanese government is granting its support to a scientist working to create animal embryos that contain human cells, and ...
Fears that China has used prisoners’ organs for transplants prompts call for retraction of more than 400 scientific papers
A world-first study has called for the mass retraction of more than 400 scientific papers on organ transplantation, amid fears ...