New research reveals a long-overlooked female organ may be essential for egg development and reproductive function relating ...

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

The experiment ended after 10 days when the recipient’s family requested the body. The results ... bolstering hopes that pigs could someday become sources of human organs for patients with organ ...

One held a biocompatible plastic that, when printed, would form the interlocking structure of a scaffold—the skeleton, essentially—of a printed human organ or body part. The others could be ...

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The modern explosion in medical memoirs is often attributed to Henry Marsh, the neurosurgeon whose instant classic, Do No Harm, was published in 2014. Yet 5 years earlier, another British surgeon, ...

PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauren Neergaard and Shelby Lum, ...

Taking a closer look at sugar's impact throughout the body takes on some urgency as ... drinks and should closely mirror the effects on human organs. The scientists fed mice solutions that ...

Down in the wild and wonderful nation-state of Florida, the owner of an oddities shop has been accused of selling human bones ...

The ribs and rib cage are excellent examples of the human body’s multifaceted and multifunctional design. They are strong enough to support the skeleton and protect the vital organs in the chest ...

Surgeons have carried out the world's first liver transplant from a pig into a human ... organ from a deceased donor is three to four months. Ivan Fernandez Vega, professor of pathological anatomy ...