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Synopsis: Health: Health policy: Organisation of health care: Organ transplant:

#Freedom Driver allows man with artificial heart to await transplant at home Heart failure patients awaiting organ transplants normally find themselves anchored to the hospital bed by a washing machine-sized device that keeps blood pumping through their veins.

Sirolimus, an immunosuppressant also known as rapamycin, has long been used to prevent rejection after a solid organ transplant.

however, the door is now open on the possibility that humans could one day receive lifesaving organ transplants from pigs.

#Researchers Smash Records with Pig-to-Primate Organ transplants A biotech company is genetically engineering pigs so that their organs might work in people.

or between-species organ transplants. The researchers say they have kept a pig heart alive in a baboon for 945 days

#Japan to invest $21 million in developing 3d printed human organs Could 3d printable human organ transplants become a reality in the coming years?

as an estimated 21 people waiting for organ transplants are dying every single day. And this is exactly where CELLINK comes In this Swedish company lead by Erik Gatenholm

"says Dr. Markus Selzner, a transplant surgeon in the Multi-Organ transplant Program at TGH, co-investigator of the clinical trial and the transplant surgeon who performed the donor operation.

"says Dr. David Grant, Surgical Director of the Multi-Organ transplant Program, co-investigator of the clinical trial who also transplanted the donor liver,

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