The rete ovarii, a poorly understood structure connected to the ovaries, may be much more essential to ovarian function than ...

We look at some recent studies that use organ-on-a-chip models to provide insights into human biology and drug.

The display features large and small paper butterflies, with large butterflies representing individuals who have donated organs, tissues, or eyes, and smaller butterflies symbolizing the lives ...

and researchers have been working to figure out what might happen to the human body during these extended voyages. Kidneys have been a big question mark. Recent work reveals that these important ...

In the piece, a trio of experts argue that advances in biotechnology will soon allow us to create “spare” human bodies that could be used for research, or to provide organs for donation.

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...

We look at the science behind the most complex organ transplant so far carried out between a human and a pig The researchers transplanted the liver from a Bama miniature pig, a laboratory line of ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical research. A steadily growing idea is one known as “bodyoids ...

If there’s even a tiny mismatch between how pig and human organs work, “I think we’re going to have problems.” But there’s certainly a need for new solutions for liver-failure patients ...

The study is part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human whole organ transplants, in a practice known as "xenotransplantation". Researchers, particularly in the US and China ...