On the morning of Jaiwen Hsu’s stem cell transplant in November 2023, the atmosphere in the hospital felt electric. Doctors had never before tried what they were going to attempt with someone like Hsu ...

In boys who, before starting puberty, undergo radical treatments that can affect their fertility, testicular tissue can be preventively removed and frozen. This is done to preserve testicular stem ...

India, May 11 -- A world-first fertility restoration procedure has offered new hope to boys who may lose their ability to have biological children after undergoing cancer treatment in childhood.

Every day, people die waiting for an organ transplant. Time is at a premium, not just for those awaiting organs, but also for the organs themselves, which can deteriorate rapidly during transportation ...

For the first time, frozen testicular tissue collected from a patient when they were a child has been successfully transplanted back into them as an adult and found to produce sperm. The ...

A group of scientists have managed to thaw frozen human brain tissue without causing any damage to the tissue itself. The new research is coming out of the Fudan University in Shanghai, China, where a ...

As of August 2024, more than 114,000 people are on the U.S. national transplant waiting list, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and about 6,000 annually will die before ...