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Stem Cell Transplant Accidentally ‘Cures’ HIV

A US cancer patient who received a stem cell transplant has been cured of HIV, said a team of German doctors whose research was...
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Woman Has Second Child After Ovary Transplant

When Stinne Holm Bergholdt of Denmark was diagnosed with bone cancer at age 27, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to have...
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Mosquito ‘Nose Transplant’ a Breakthrough in Wiping out Malaria

Five years of exhaustive research has yielded the key to thwarting “the most dangerous animal on the planet:” disarming its nose. Scientists at...
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First Double Arm Transplant Recipient Regains Mobility

The recipient of the world's first complete double arm transplant scratched his head and back and beamed at his doctors Wednesday, saying he...

Stem Cell Transplant ‘Very Encouraging’ for Type 1 Diabetes

A handful of people with type 1 diabetes have been able to survive without insulin shots for more than two-and-a-half years, on average,...
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Doctors Transplant Windpipe in a New Healthier Way

Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs....
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World’s First Double-Arm Transplant Recipient Calls ‘Being Whole Again’ Indescribable

Doctors spent 15 hours in July grafting human arms onto the body of 54-year-old farmer Karl Merk, who lost his own just below the...

Boy Gets Heart Transplant Thanks to Cell Phone

Hospital officials in Pennsylvania tried to contact a family awaiting a heart transplant. Their son's organ had arrived and he needed to get to...

Girl’s Heart Jump-Started After 10 Years Living with a Transplant

British doctors have revived a 12-year-old girl's dormant heart after 10 years to reimplant it after her transplanted organ began to cause problems. It...

Good News in History, March 26

49 years ago today, the Biological Weapons Convention, (BWC) entered into force. It's considered to have established a strong global norm against biological weapons...

Scientists Discover Potential HIV Cure that Eliminates Disease from Cells Using CRISPR-Cas Gene Editing

A new study has unveiled a likely future cure for HIV which uses molecular scissors to ‘cut out’ HIV DNA from infected cells. To cut...

Full Recovery for Coral Reef Within 4 Years – The Speed of Restoration They Saw was ‘Incredible’

In a truly monumental discovery, scientists studying coral restoration in Indonesia found that artificially restored coral reefs can regrow as fast a naturally occurring...

Good News in History, March 4

1,172 years ago today, a Duke named Trpimir I wrote in a charter in the Latin language that he was Duke of the Croats...

Good News in History, February 19

Happy 38th Birthday to perhaps the greatest competitive female soccer player in history—the Brazilian colloquially called "Marta". Marta Viera da Silva holds the record for...

New Synthetic Compound Can Kill Superbugs Resistant to Antibiotics

Harvard researchers have created an antibiotic that can overcome many drug-resistant infections, which have become a deadly global health menace, killing a million people...

Stem Cells in Menstrual Blood Have Thrilling Potential for Health, Including Diagnosing Endometriosis

(Originally published by Knowable Magazine – written by Sneha Khedkar) Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could be the source of important medical applications. Roughly 20 years...

Good News in History, December 23

102 years ago today, Visva-Bharati University was founded in West Bengal by the Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore. The brilliant Nobel Prize-winning humanist...

Volunteer Hospital Driver Gets Favor Returned Decades After Becoming Friends with a 6-yo–She Gave her Kidney

Krystal was 6 years old when Dave Polen began transporting her over 170 miles from her home in Somerville, Indiana, to a hospital. She was...

FDA Approves Cure for Sickle Cell Disease, the First Treatment to Use Gene-Editing Tool CRISPR

The first FDA-approved treatment using CRISPR may see hundreds of African Americans cured of sickle cell disease. Making headlines without end for years, but only...

Exciting Clinical Trials of New Stem Cell Injection Treatment Shows Promise for Halting Multiple Sclerosis

A collaborative study involving experts in Europe and the US found the treatment of stem cells appears to protect the brains of MS patients...