Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 23 August 2023

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1. First UK womb transplant

Surgeons have carried out the first womb transplant in the UK. The team in Oxford spent eight hours removing the womb from the donor, then nine hours implanting it into the recipient, who was in the operating theatre next door. The receiver was a 34-year-old woman, and the donor her 40-year-old sister, both of whom are said to be “over the moon” after recovering well. The younger sibling plans to have IVF this autumn using embryos that she and her husband have in storage.

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