The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues in the human body. Now researchers have developed a method to detect ...

People diagnosed with dementia have up to 10 times more microplastics present in their brains than those without the condition, a new study has found.

Chemistry researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found specific markers that may lead to new blood tests for ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Massachusetts General Hospital ...

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.

Archaeological evidence shows the Magdalenian people from 18,000 years ago likely were engaged in cannibalism. As part of the ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...

Microplastics have been found everywhere in the human body, including blood, breast milk, testicles, heart tissue, lung tissue and various other organs. So it’s not entirely a s ...