A new study investigated whether patients with a rare condition in which major internal organs are reversed from their normal ...

There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was considered experimental only a half-century ago.

New research by KAUST scientists has identified that the gene "CIROZ" is responsible for pediatric heart defects and the ...

In the piece, a trio of experts argue that advances in biotechnology will soon allow us to create “spare” human bodies that could be used for research, or to provide organs for donation.

It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch – a long-time goal of regenerative ... taking them down different paths of maturation. “By changing the placement of the organizer cells, and ...

Wearing blue rubber gloves, Molly Dobrow reached into a metal vat of diluted sodium hydroxide and pulled out two dripping-wet models of human organs: a heart and a set of lungs. Made of Elastico ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...