A video in Scientific American discusses new breakthrough research with Harald Ott, Instructor in Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospitals in Boston. Ott and his team have been harvesting dead organs, such as hearts, lungs, limbs, and kidneys, and bringing them back to life to one day be used for...

Reuters reports “A donated human liver has been kept alive, warm and functioning outside a human being on a newly-developed machine and then successfully transplanted into patients in a medical world first.” Currently, livers for transplant are kept on ice, which does not simulate normal body...

A new study in The Lancet compares “the effect of donor age and cold ischaemic time on transplant outcome in kidneys donated after circulatory death versus brain death.” The research showed “Donor age older than 60 years (compared with <40 years) was associated with an increased risk...