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Mary Roach’s previous books include Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Jen Siska/W.W. Norton & Company hide caption…

August 28, 20254 min readNew Cell Transplant for Type 1 Diabetes Sidesteps Need for ImmunosuppressantsScientists treated a person’s type 1 diabetes with genetically modified insulin-producing cells…

Surgeons have transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain dead human recipient for the first time and found it functioned for nine…

The number of patients waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant in the UK has increased to a record high while there has been a sharp drop…

To read Rachel Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, which has won this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction, is to experience an onslaught of often competing…

Surgeons in California have performed the first ever successful bladder transplant, aiding a patient who previously had his bladder and both kidneys removed as a result…