Meet the ‘inside-out’ little girl who was born with her stomach, liver and bowel on the oustide of her body. Laurel Phizacklea, two, from Cambridge, wasn’t expected to survive birth and her parents, Kelly, 30, and Sean, 34, were offered a termination at their 12-week scan when doctors diagnosed their unborn child with a major … Read more
A Florida widow has donated a kidney to the man who received her late husband’s organs 16 years ago. In 2004, roofer Bryan Herrington, 35, lost his life after he tragically fell from a house he was working on. His organs went to four people, including Jeffery ‘Jeff’ Granger who received Bryan’s kidney and his … Read more
The vast majority of the tens of thousands of patients in the UK who have tested positive for Covid-19 will be counting their lucky stars that they have had only a mild encounter with the deadly virus — but they may not be able to relax just yet. There is growing evidence from China, where … Read more
Organ donation is one of those subjects most of us push to the back of our minds. Whenever I’ve seen a stack of donor cards on the pharmacy counter, I’ve thought, yes, I must get round to signing one of those. You never know when you might fall under a bus or suddenly drop dead … Read more
A mother-of-five lived for 99 years with a ‘totally backwards’ body, doctors have revealed. Rose Marie Bentley, from Molalla in northwest Oregon, was discovered to have situs inversus with levocardia. This caused her liver, stomach and pancreas to develop on her right side rather than in their normal more ‘left’ position. Mrs Bentley was oblivious … Read more
NASA astronauts have started growing human cells aboard the International Space Station to help understand the production of human tissue in low gravity. 250 test tubes containing adult human stem cells were sent aboard the SpaceX CRS-20 resupply mission that arrived at the ISS this week. Scientists say that due to the weightlessness on board … Read more