Researchers in the United States have succeeded in making a working kidney and transplanting it into rats. According to the journal Nature Medicine, this process known as Bioengineering could potentially make

organ

transplants obsolete in the future. It involves taking a rat kidney and stripping it of its cells, leaving a shell which's then relined with renewed cells from newborn rats and blood

vessel

running cells from human donors.

China's state news agency says 11 fresh cases of the new strain of bird flu have been reported across the country on Sunday. Two new deaths from the new

virus

were also reported in Shanghai with new strain named new H7N9 first appeared last month. A total of 13 people have now died. A spokesman for the World Health Organization Michael O'Leary said there was no evidence that the virus was transmitted from human to human. "As far as we know, all the cases are individually infected in a sporadic and not connected way. There have been a couple of family clusters that have been investigated but the cases in general have been sporadically spread around the country, and the source of infections remains under active investigation."

The Bahraini government says it would take what it termed

appropriate

measures to ensure that anti-government protests don't disrupt the formula 1 Grand Prix on Friday. The opposition has urged a week protest leading up to the start of the race, but the government's spokeswoman said the security situation in Bahrain was very reassuring. The race was cancelled in 2011 when the government crashed pro-democracy rallies with deadly forces.