A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

Dr. Joe Sirven explores the gift of organ donation and, separately, how living well with an autoimmune disease is possible.

CD47-amyloid-β-CD74 signaling is a key driver of adaptive immunosuppression in sepsis, suppressing B cells and impairing ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology is not capable of observing body tissues at the scale of ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

Researchers from the University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Caltech have developed a ...

This marks the first human case ... of cases involving organ transplantation," a statement from UTMC reads, as reported by ...

With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and protect neurons from harm. Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared ...

COVID infections can lead to long-term health effects in nearly every organ system in the body. (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) Well, what is it about the coronavirus that ...