SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s long organ transplant waiting period has resulted in the deaths of 5.2 people per day in 2018, up twofold from eight years earlier, a state-run health agency said Tuesday. The development is causing a sharp increase in people waiting to get a transplant and a drop in [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of Korean scientists has successfully developed an artificial liver, based on pig liver, that can be used for human transplants. The breakthrough was part of the Woo Jang-choon Project, named after a renowned Korean botanist and agricultural scientist of the same name, conducted jointly by researchers from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A debate on Tuesday hosted by the Korea Organization for Sharing Tissue discussed ways to establish a more active donation culture for tissue and organs in Korea, both of which have disappointing donation rates here compared to other developed nations. According to KOST, the registration rate for organ donation [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A monkey that received a pig heart transplant has set a new national record after surviving for 51 days (and counting), said the National Institute of Animal Science Wednesday, surpassing the previous record of 43 days. The subject monkey, a crab-eating macaque, received the heart and cornea of a [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Organ donation in Korea is not yet a popular practice. The idea of “damaging” one’s body (even when dead) is a concept that’s still difficult to grasp in a society still deep-rooted in traditional Confucian beliefs. In fact, for every 1 million Koreans, only 49.5 donated organs, a much [...]