In July 2023 the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced that the successful delivery of the first baby born from a transplanted uterus outside of a clinical trial. The birth itself occurred the ...

A woman in Alabama just gave birth to the first baby born from a transplanted uterus outside of a clinical trial. Mallory (who did not share her last name for privacy reasons) had a planned C-section ...

Uterine artery embolization is a minimally invasive procedure. It blocks blood flow to noncancerous tumors called fibroids in the uterus, causing them to shrink and die. These growths are almost ...

Uterine transplants are not new. The first successful uterine transplant was done in Sweden in 2013. America boasted its first successful uterine transplant three years later at Baylor. But these were ...

Around 135 transplants have been performed, but it's probably too soon to offer the procedure to trans women. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech ...

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