A 15-year-old girl who had received a liver transplant when she was 9, has miraculously changed her blood type adapting to that of her donor.

Demi-Lee Brennan had O-negative blood type before receiving a replacement liver six years ago

new virus called Merkel cell polyomavirus or MCV, which is linked to a rare but lethal type of skin cancer, has been discovered by an American researcher. MCV, according to a study by the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute published Thursday, is the first virus to be associated with a specific type of cancer.

The cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), mainly affects people with weak immune systems including AIDS patients and those who recently underwent transplant procedures. Nearly 1,500 cases of Merkel cancer are reported annually. Around 50 percent of the patients with advanced stages of the cancer survive for nine months only

The former owner of a New Jersey tissue-recovery firm will plead guilty to illegally removing parts of more than 1,400 corpses from New York funeral homes and selling these to over 20,000 American, British and Canadian transplant recipients.

According to The Sun, the lawyer of 44-year-old Michael Mastromarino said the ex-CEO of Biomedical Tissue Services Ltd. in Fort Lee has agreed to the plea bargain, which will imprison him for at least 18 years instead of for life

British Prime Minster Gordon Brown announced Sunday his support for a "presumed consent" organ donation program that gives doctors more leniency in removing organs from deceased patients for transplant purposes.

Brown announced his backing for the "opt-out" program, wherein individuals would be automatically considered potential organ donors, unless they decide not to be

Scientists have moved a step closer to winning the battle against one of the most common human parasites, Toxoplasma gondii. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found that the parasite uses a hormone from the plant world to decide when to grow and when to remain dormant.

Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite found in a variety of places. That includes contaminated kitchen surfaces or utensils that have come in contact with raw meat, drinking contaminated water, dirt in people's yards and the feces of cats that are infected and, more rarely, an infected organ transplant or blood transfusion