World's 1st pancreatic islet transplant from live donor starts

KYOTO, Japan - A woman in her 50s is carried to an operation theater at the Kyoto University Hospital in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward on Jan. 19 to undergo an operation to transplant clusters of cells from her pancreas to her daughter in her 20s. (Kyodo)

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