transplanting

Another team in China previously reported transplanting such a liver into a patient who had been declared brain-dead.

Regenerative heart therapies involve transplanting cardiac muscle cells into damaged areas of the heart to recover lost function.

Researchers have previously created hybrid brains by injecting neurons or transplanting pea-sized brain organoids from one species into either a developing brain or a fully formed one, either a mouse or rat.

Most significantly, surgical programs that have adopted perfusion are transplanting more organs.

In a pair of firsts, research teams last week reported transplanting into humans a kidney and a liver from pigs genetically modified to reduce the risk of immune rejection.