<![CDATA[io9: Transplants]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: Transplants]]> http://io9.com/tag/transplants http://io9.com/tag/transplants <![CDATA[Woman Gives Birth A Second Time After Ovary Transplant]]> A Danish woman became the first woman on Earth to give birth to a second child after an ovary transplant — and the second child happened naturally, without any fertility treatments at all. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5480327&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Eight Real-Life Doctor Frankensteins Who Pushed the Boundaries of Life and Death]]> Click to viewMary Shelley helped advance the science fiction genre with her tale of a scientist who brings a man built of corpses to life. But in real life, plenty of mad and not-so-mad scientists have played with human and animal bodies (and body parts) to gain a greater understanding of the limits on life. After the jump, right real-life scientists who have performed shocking experiments on the nature life and death. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5059127&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[First Double-Arm Transplant Is a Success]]> A 54-year-old German farmer who lost his arms in an accident six years ago has just received two new arms in the first double-arm transplant operation ever performed (pictured is one of his new arms). A team of German doctors spent 15 hours grafting two arms from a recently-deceased teen donor onto the man's shoulders. They connected all his tissues, including the extremely-difficult blood vessels. What remains now is for the man's nerves to grow until they form connections with the nerves in his new arms. That will allow him to take complete control of his transplanted limbs. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5032531&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sam Raimi Gets Transplanted To Disney World]]> Did Spider-Man 3's musical interludes and painful comedy make you wish that director Sam Raimi could go and make a family-friendly superhero movie for Disney? If so, then (a) you're in luck, and (b) you should probably consider a career in long-term forecasting of some kind or another. Find out about Raimi's latest superpowered project under the jump. More »
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