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Preparing a heart valve for storage

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Freeze-dried valves used in animal heart surgery for first time

Pieces of heart tissue can be freeze-dried, stored in plastic bags at room temperature, and later rehydrated for successful heart surgery in sheep

operation

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Restarting dead people’s hearts lets doctors reuse their organs

A box for transporting human tissue

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England鈥檚 shift to opt-out organ donation will save many lives

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Welcome to the limb lab where organs are kept alive on shelves

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Donor organs created by dissolving and rebuilding pig livers

brain scan

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Head transplant mavericks must be scrutinised, not ignored

Heart in operating theatre

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Human hearts kept ‘asleep’ in a box can survive outside the body

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Kidney donors swap organs for transplant vouchers for loved ones

Three piglets huddled together

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CRISPR makes piglets that may be better organ donors for humans

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Would you give one of your kidneys to a stranger?

More and more people are donating their spare kidney to save the life of someone they鈥檝e never met, a gesture that could end transplant waiting lists

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Pig brain cells implanted into brains of people with Parkinson鈥檚

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Animals that grow designer organs for humans are a step closer

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Have you talked to your family about organ donation?

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Gut tissue wired up with nerves created in lab for first time