Rotweiller saves the life of a badly injured wolf by donating blood after its wild cousin had been run over by a car. The maned wolf was delivered close to…
An adorable infant named Emma has received the world’s first intestinal implant from a dead organ donor. The 17-month-old tot - from Segovia, Spain - is the first person in…
A 'synthetic' embryo with a brain and beating heart has been created by British scientists. It features the foundations of all the body's organs - including neural and gut tubes…
A terminally ill British woman with leukaemia now has a chance to be saved after an Austrian man registered as a stem cell donor and the two matched in a…
The largest funnel-web spider ever seen by staff at the Australian Reptile Park has been handed in by an anonymous donor so that it can be milked to extract venom…
The body of a 15-year-old girl has been buried by her family after she became an organ donor when she was killed in a car crash together with her mum,…
This one-year-old boy has received a life-changing living donor liver transplant on his birthday after his stepmother turned out to be a viable donor and travelled with him from his…
A 12-year-old girl is suffering from leukaemia for a second time in three years and is now looking for a bone marrow donor. German schoolgirl Romy was diagnosed with the…
The Spanish priest who became a close friend and later the confessor of the Pope after donating blood that saved him when he was a younger man has died at…
This is the touching moment medics applaud a 25-year-old brain-dead woman as she is led down to surgery so her organs could go to seven other people. The unnamed housewife…