In a medical breakthrough considered a milestone, 62-year-old Richard ‘Rick’ Slayman has been released from hospital after being the first to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig. The groundbreaking surgery,…
Philip Goff, Durham University The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind-blowing. Who would have thought we’d be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14…
Dan Baumgardt, University of Bristol The neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced in 2015 that he could soon be capable of performing the world’s first human head transplant procedure. This would mean that it would…
Surgeons in Vietnam performed a critical rescue by extracting a 30-centimeter eel still alive from a patient’s abdominal cavity, where it had caused serious intestinal damage. On March 20, a 34-year-old man was…
The brain tissue, flexible and complex, performs its functions through a symphony of brain waves. While diverse activities are performed simultaneously, the method by which the brain prevents interference between different wave frequencies…
In a remarkable medical breakthrough, a genetically modified pig kidney has been successfully transplanted into a human patient. The pioneering procedure promises new hope for those awaiting organ transplants. The patient, a 62-year-old…
On the floor of the South Atlantic Ocean lies a vast submerged island, a reliquary of a prehistoric era that may hold the key to a treasure trove of rare earth elements and…