What’s new in biology: spring 2026

Niko McCarty and Saloni Dattani review some of the biggest stories in biotechnology and medicine.Organ transplants have become much more efficient. Most organ transplants in the US come from deceased donors, and technology has made it much easier to recover those organs and keep them alive for transplants. A new study, looking at all organ transplants from deceased donors, finds a massive rise in the number of organs recovered for donation in the last five years. In 2000, around 2 percent of don...