Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

Dr Wouter Vogel, radiation oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, explained that the reason the glands have gone ...

Atala believed that the solution was clear, if far-fetched: lab-grown organs cultivated out of a patient’s own cells and surgically implanted into the body ... of human organs, which could ...

Transplanting animal organs into humans, known as xenotransplantation, has long felt like science fiction. But in the past ...

Presto, change-o: A new piece of me—of you—made ... learning how to grow organ-specific cells outside the human body and keep them alive. (Some cells, he explained, like those of the pancreas ...

Researchers have developed a new “body clock" tool that measures biological age and may help forecast a person’s risk of ...

The human body and its organs are composed of a wide variety of cell types. Although all cells contain the same genes, they ...

Someone who receives a new organ or tissue will live a longer and ... What Parts of the Human Body Can Be Donated After Death for Transplantation? Many parts of the human body can be transplanted ...

In recognition of her pioneering work across materials science, bioengineering, and stem cell biology, the National Academy ...

What if our organs – or, rather, our relationship to them – could ... These are all brought together so the BBC Concert Orchestra can “perform the movement that is human life”. It’s an eerily surreal ...