Lauran Neergaard

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Doctors remove pig kidney from an Alabama woman after a record 130 days

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis,...

Scientists map part of a mouse’s brain that’s so complex it looks like a galaxy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000...

Shingles is awful, but here’s another reason to get vaccinated: It may fight dementia

WASHINGTON (AP) — A vaccine to fight dementia? It turns out there may already be one – shots that prevent painful shingles also appear to protect aging brains.A new study found shingles...

Boys with cancer can face infertility as adults. Can storing their stem cells help?

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who battled childhood cancer has received the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells, in a study aimed at restoring the fertility of cancer’s youngest survivors.Jaiwen Hsu...

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