University of Maryland first to use unmanned aircraft to deliver kidney for transplant

(University of Maryland Medical Center) In a first-ever advancement in human medicine and aviation technology, a University of Maryland unmanned aircraft has delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore for successful transplantation into a patient with kidney failure. The flight was a collaboration between transplant physicians and researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; aviation and engineering experts at the University of...