You take my heart away

When it comes to recieving hearts and kidneys, men do better than women. Women do better when it comes to donating organs

The great and bloody organs bazaar

The recent regulatory organ transplant Act, supposed to be a fist in the kidneys of the huge illegal bodyparts trade, has turned out to be a …

Cold cold heart

If everything goes right, it would be possible to 'store' vital organs to be used for transplants much later

Dangerous grafting

Public health could be under a serious threat if organ transplants from animals are carelessly conducted

Making life sweeter

The unfriendly response of the immune system is one of the main problems in pancreas transplant. But researchers have now developed an ingenious …

First human-monkey embryos created – a small step towards a huge ethical problem

We believe monkeys to have lower moral status than humans; but what about human-monkey chimeras?

'Spare parts' for sale

Unless Indians realise the nobility of donating their organs after death, the illegal trade in organs from living people will continue to flourish.

Tissue transplant: by whose consent?

The removal of the corneas from the body of an accident victim in France, shocked the public and exposed the legal and ethical failings of the …

Spare parts any takers?

The ethics of transplanting an organ from one species to another is debatable as the dangers involved are too many and unknown

How to grow human mini-livers in the lab to help solve liver disease

In a first, the organ was genetically engineered using induced pluripotent stem cells, a type of stem cell that can be generated from adult skin …

Ray of hope for transplant patients

A bill introduced during the last session of Parliament seeks to change the definition of death from when the heart stops beating to when the …

Edge of unreason

From a little-known Gurgaon doctor in 2008 to the alleged involvement of a nephrologist from Delhi's Apollo hospital today, the kidney racket …

UK’s first successful womb transplant – key questions answered

We need to take care that in going to such great lengths to make gestational parenting possible, we are not creating a hierarchy in which the …

Malady to miracle: Leprosy bacteria grows liver in armadillos, gives hope for human organ regeneration

Study finds bacteria of the chronic infectious disease reprogrammed certain cells into ‘stem-like cells’

Pig heart transplant: A history of the animal’s contribution to medical sciences

In 1997, two surgeons were jailed when an Indian patient died after a pig organ transplant 

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (December 7, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal 

Tensions that continue

While launching this newsmagazine, our founder-editor Anil Agarwal had said that in the years ahead, India will have to seize every possible …

Gutsy brains

Organ thieves, beware

Coping with rejection

Special proteins have been developed that would help avoid rejection of transplanted organs

Striving for transparency

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Dead right

A change of heart

In search of an eyeball