Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

The trial was part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human organ transplants, in a practice known as ...

In the first half of the course, students learned concepts like metabolic rate, or the amount of energy the body needs to ...

A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.

A series of short films for secondary schools examining the human body through spectacular graphics ... images to paint a picture of how we develop inside the womb. Skin - defend and protect.

After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...

At Emory University, researcher Chunhui Xu asked a question few had considered: What if space could help us heal the human ...

Hundreds of people swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration are being kept at an overcrowded detention ...

For decades, replacing a failing human heart meant waiting—often desperately—for a donor. But in a hospital in Sydney, that paradigm has begun to shift. Last November, surgeons at St Vincent’s ...

Babies born with serious heart defects might be given a pig ... while many are altered to suit the human body. Critics of xenotransplantation have been pretty vocal about calling it a pompous ...