Intravenous stem cell transplants could possibly be used within the next five years in repairing damaged brain tissue of patients who have suffered a stroke, researchers at Stanford University say.

Lead researcher Gary Steinberg, a professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, and his team tested human stem cells from the brains of donated terminated fetuses and how they reacted with growth factors to be stable

At least 15,000 human kidneys a year are sold and obtained through organ trafficking and many medical professionals are turning a blind eye (and hand) on the practice.

At a United Nations Forum in Vienna, Austria, University of Berkeley Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes accused surgeons and top medical professionals of being in league with criminal elements in targeting desperate transplant patients

A doctor at Columbia University says they have developed new virus genome sequencing technology. It was developed by the university and a Connecticut biotechnology firm and the doctor says it is the best tool to identify infectious diseases quickly and accurately.

According to a report on high throughput DNA sequencing technology, to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, the technique successfully identified arenavirus lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) as the killer of three organ transplant patients in Australia in April 2005. The kidney and liver were from an American donor infected with the virus

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