A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis toggle caption Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health NEW YORK – Towana Looney can hardly contain her anticipation as she waits to get wheeled to an operating room at the NYU Langone Health hospital in New York City for an historic procedure. "It's going to change my life," …
Retinal stem cells harvested from the eyes of corpses could be used to cure blindness for millions of people around the world, a study has proposed. Experts led from China have now successfully transplanted retina stem cells from a human cadaver into the eyes of monkeys — where they survived and grew into RPE. Retinal stem cells harvested from the …
