Editing Organ donation (section)

==History==
{{Further|List of organ transplant donors and recipients}}
The first living organ donor in a successful transplant was Ronald Lee Herrick (1931–2010), who donated a kidney to his identical twin brother [[Richard Herrick|Richard]] (1931–1963) in 1954.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Batty |first1=David |title=World's first organ donor dies aged 79 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/dec/30/first-organ-donor-dies-79 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=December 30, 2010 }}</ref> The lead surgeon, [[Joseph Murray]], and the nephrologist, John Merrill, won the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1990 for advances in organ transplantation.

The youngest organ donor was a baby with [[anencephaly]], born in 2014, who lived for only 100 minutes and donated his [[kidney]]s to an adult with [[renal failure]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/23/parents-uks-youngest-organ-donor-teddy-houlston-hope-others-inspired|title=Parents of UK's youngest organ donor hope others will be inspired|last=Weaver|first=Matthew|date=April 23, 2015|work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London|access-date=April 24, 2015}}</ref> The oldest known cornea donor was a 107-year-old Scottish woman, whose corneas were donated after her death in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.12news.com/news/nation-now/107yearold-becomes-scotlands-oldest-organ-donor/264713183|title=107-year-old becomes Scotland's oldest organ donor|last=Wilson|first=Caroline|date=July 5, 2016|publisher=Evening Times (Glasgow, Scotland)|access-date=August 6, 2016|archive-date=August 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808190944/http://www.12news.com/news/nation-now/107yearold-becomes-scotlands-oldest-organ-donor/264713183|url-status=dead}}</ref> The oldest known organ donor for an internal organ was a 98-year-old southern Missouri man, who donated his liver after he died.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Oldest ever US organ donor believed to be 98-year-old man |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/12/oldest-american-organ-donor-orville-allen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240612220820/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/12/oldest-american-organ-donor-orville-allen |archive-date=June 12, 2024 |access-date=June 13, 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

The oldest altruistic living organ donor was an 85-year-old woman in Britain, who donated a kidney to a stranger in 2014 after hearing how many people needed to receive a transplant.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/462639/Woman-donates-kidney-to-complete-stranger-aged-85|title='I don't need two kidneys to knit': Woman, 85, becomes UK's oldest live donor|last=Wharton|first=Jane|date=March 2, 2014 |access-date=August 6, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Express}}</ref>

Researchers were able to develop a novel way to transplant human fetal kidneys into [[anephric]] rats to overcome a significant obstacle in impeding human fetal organ transplantations.<ref name=ChangGu2015/> The human fetal kidneys demonstrated both growth and [[function (biology)|function]] within the rats.<ref name=ChangGu2015>{{cite journal |last1=Chang |first1=N.K. |last2=Gu |first2=J. |last3=Gu |first3=S. |last4=Osorio |first4=R.W. |last5=Concepcion |first5=W. |last6=Gu |first6=E. |title=Arterial Flow Regulator Enables Transplantation and Growth of Human Fetal Kidneys in Rats |journal=American Journal of Transplantation |date=June 2015 |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=1692–1700 |doi=10.1111/ajt.13149 |pmid=25645705 |s2cid=2409733 |doi-access=free }}</ref>