Public transport: Researchers are sceptical about cheaper 30-day tickets From next autumn, Norway’s capital Oslo will lower the price for 30-day tickets. Politicians hope this will encourage more motorists choose public transport, but several researchers doubt the effectiveness.
3-D printed organs may solve organ donation shortages It was just 10 months ago that a research team at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in the US reported that they had printed out an ear made from living cartilage cells. The ear was kept alive for several weeks in a petri dish and then transplanted under the skin of a mouse, where it grew successfully.
Salvaged donor lungs can save lives Donor lungs once thought unsuitable for transplant can be salvaged for use by a new method after special treatment in a purpose-built heart and lung machine unit.
Liver transplants ten times better than chemotherapy Transplantations can be lifesavers for many colon cancer patients with a spread of tumours to the liver. New research reveals that survival rates are ten times higher than treatment with chemotherapy.