Fourteen of 19 patients with normal or mildly abnormal hepatic function were discharged from hospital after successful transplantation, 10 being alive at long term follow up.
The research laid the foundation for infertility therapy and for the successful transplantation of fertilized eggs.
Internationally, this center is one of the largest bone marrow transplantation centers and has carried out a large number of successful transplantations.
Their experiment was the first successful nuclear transplantation performed in metazoans.
In addition, successful transplantation of the marker genes would presumably help scientists gauge how well some human genes function after they are transplanted.
TIPSS have been performed on patients without interfering with successful transplantation.
Lower performed his first successful human transplantation in May of that same year.
Recurrent disease in transplanted kidneys is common, although there have been reports of successful transplantations.
The research published in Science gives evidence of progress by documenting the first successful transplantation of functional heart cells into an animal model.
Not many years before that first successful transplantation, eminent scientists had scorned the idea that it might be achieved before the 21st century.