Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This ...

Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute have identified a previously unknown organ in the human body — a new salivary gland. This surprising find was made accidentally during cancer ...

In a first step toward FDA approval of kidney xenotransplantation, a living human with end-stage kidney disease may receive a ...

If you've handled cat litter or eaten raw meat or unwashed produce, there’s a chance you might have a permanent toxoplasmosis ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever clinical trial of the transplantation of a nonhuman animal organ—a genetically modified pig kidney—into living human ...

Soon, Your Doctor Could Print a Human Organ on Demand ... He shook his head. “At the end of the day, I went into medicine to take care of patients,” he said.

Genetically modified pigs could provide unlimited organs for human transplants : ... Todd Vaught, head scientist of nuclear transfers, manipulates eggs under a microscope in a Revivicor laboratory.

Pigs, whose organs are about the right size and can be bred easily and quickly, offer a promising alternative. But before tying a person's fate to a pig's organ, Montgomery, head of the Transplant ...

Break up the human organ monopoly. March 27, ... president — they help to establish the “criminal enterprise” of which prosecutors hope to prove Mr. Trump was the head.

A group of scientists announced a new discovery this week: extra organs in your head. According to a new study from the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology, researchers discovered a new set of ...

On May 21, startup BrainBridge unveiled its concept for a world-first head transplant system, promising to combine artificial intelligence with the latest in robotics to literally remove a human ...

Miniature, underdeveloped versions of organs including brains, bladders and pancreases are being grown in Petri dishes in laboratories around the world. It may sound like something out of Aldous ...