1.   Isogai transplanted bovine tissue onto polymer matrices that were shaped like human finger bones.

2.   Plus, they could open the way to transplanting other tissues.

3.   Roger Gosden is the most outspoken champion of transplanting ovarian tissue and has provided much of the experimental support for it.

4.   The tissues are transplanted without their blood supply, which also lowers the risk of rejection.

5.   Healthy ovarian tissue was transplanted to her forearm in April last year, and it also has functioned like a normal ovary.

6.   In humans, this sugar triggers a powerful rejection reaction when swine tissue is transplanted.

7.   Scottish health authorities are investigating how tissue from the eyes of a woman who had suffered from Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease was transplanted into three other people.

8.   The concern has been that if pig tissues are transplanted to people, this viral DNA might make viruses that will infect people.

9.   New Zealand company Diatranz Limited had approached the Cook Islands government to begin trails on the diabetes treatment, in which pig pancreatic tissue is transplanted into humans.