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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Tobi Thomas

History of transplant breakthroughs: from hearts to hands … and heads?

Heart and lung transplant machine
A heart and lung transplant machine at Papworth hospital in Cambridgeshire. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

Surgeons have performed the first womb transplant in the UK, it has been announced. The 34-year-old recipient received her sister’s uterus in an operation in February at Churchill hospital in Oxford that took nine hours and 20 minutes.

We look at some other major transplant breakthroughs over the years – and consider what the future may hold.

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