Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...
The field of therapeutic cloning has long sought to provide a way to create replacement organs and tissues from a patient’s own cells, with the most recent boost coming from the US Advanced Research ...
For generations, medical students were taught that the map of the human body was essentially complete. Yet cancer imaging has now exposed a hidden structure in the head and neck that behaves like a ...
A new spatial transcriptomic technology captures RNA patterns without requiring expensive imaging ...
Human organs could be bioprinted for transplants within 10 years, according to Lithuanian startup Vital3D. But before reaching human hearts and kidneys, the company is starting with something simpler: ...
The human cost of organ scarcity is tragically real. In the United States alone, more than 100,000 patients wait for the possibility of an organ transplant. Every eight minutes, a new name joins the ...
A man lived for 171 days with a genetically modified pig liver, the greatest advance to date in xenotransplantation.