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A Bay Area biotech company is developing organ structures without brains that could replace monkeys in medical research and eventually provide transplant organs for humans. The innovation could eliminate suffering for tens of thousands of research animals while solving the organ shortage crisis.
German researchers successfully revived frozen mouse brain tissue after up to a week in storage, restoring memory and thought functions. The breakthrough could revolutionize organ transplants and emergency brain injury treatment.
Federal health officials just unveiled a plan to help thousands more patients receive lifesaving organs by improving how the nation's transplant system works. The changes focus on using more "medically complex" donor organs that are currently being wasted, even though they could give seriously ill patients years of healthy life.
Over 100,000 Americans wait for organ transplants, but thousands of usable organs go unused each year. New federal rules aim to change that by encouraging doctors to use imperfect organs that could still save lives.