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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"An aging-based framework offers a new path to discover biomarkers and therapeutics that target organ-specific or whole-body aging, rather than individual diseases," Salimi said in the release.

Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways ... but a certain amount remains in organs, blood and other body fluids. Scientists have now been able to ...