South Korean scientists on Thursday issued a claim they had developed a new and simpler way to produce cloned pigs suitable for human organ transplants.

The scientists said they had used stem cells from pigs' bone marrow to have cloned embryos unlike the traditional cloning method using somatic cells and the success rate is positive

The National Health Service of Greater Glasgow literally delivered heart-stopping news on Friday. The NHS placed all transplant surgeries on hold at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary after an alarming rise in patient mortalities. Recently, 4 of 11 patients who underwent a transplant have died within 30 days of the procedure.

While authorities are reviewing the policy and investigating the deaths, Scottish patients who need a new heart will be placed on a waiting list at the Freeman Hospital on Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Chinese scientists on Tuesday confirmed they have developed a two-layer artificial skin for burn victims and those in need of a skin transplant. The latest statistics reveal an estimated 3.5 million people in the region need a skin transplant, while over 15 million Chinese are burnt annually.

In an exhibition, Professor Jin Yan of China's Fourth Military Medical University showed and likened the new kind artificial skin to a "milky white adhesive film" with a diameter of 20 centimeters

Body parts donated by drug addicts are now being used in body transplants following a serious shortage of organs.

At least 450 body parts from donors who have drug abuse history have been used by transplant surgeons who have been forced by such circumstances between 2002 and 2007, BBC News reported. The quality of these organs and risks to infections may have been affected, it added

A two-year-old boy from a Russian-held island being claimed by Japan has been discharged from a hospital in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido after undergoing a skin transplant to treat his serious burn injury, according to reports.

Ryzhov Nikita Andreevich and his mother, Kychuk Natal'ja Yur'evna, left the Sapporo Medical University Hospital in Sapporo on Friday. Staff of the hospital applauded the two, who are from Kunashiri Island, and gave them gifts before they left, the Mainichi Daily News reported