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

As thousands of people await a lifesaving heart, scientists are racing to buy them more time. A promising advance from scientists in Germany offers a potential solution.

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 ...

Democratic control and oversight of statutory intelligence agencies refer to a comprehensive set of mechanisms and processes ...

PARIS: Chinese doctors said on Wednesday that they had transplanted a liver from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead ...

since the organ performs so many complex functions, Wang said in the briefing. “The heart functions as a pump to pump blood ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the first time in a 'milestone' for organ transfers between animals and people.

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

How Sugar Affects Individual Organs Although researchers in India used mice while studying the effects of sugary beverages on the body, their methods closely mimic how we consume sweet drinks and ...

Spending months in microgravity is brutal on the body. Without the Earth’s gravitational ... Radiation is another major concern. Although the ISS is shielded by Earth’s magnetosphere ...