A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...

Google Earth’ for human organs made available online An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced, in ...

The free Human Organ Atlas gives users an up-close-and-personal look at 56 human organs.

The tool displays organs in three dimensions and opens new avenues for researching key diseases, such as cancer and diabetes ...

An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users to explore intact human organs in unprecedented detail—from the whole organ ...

Currently, there are around 600 people waiting for an organ transplant in Ireland, while in the US the figure is around 100,000.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

Miniature organs grown in the lab can organize themselves into complex shapes. But they never do it the same way twice, which makes it hard to use these so-called "organoids" to study disease. Now, ...

Seven years ago, Edward Tranter was fresh out of school and determined to donate one of his kidneys. It was not in aid of a family member or a close friend, and not even because he had watched ...

Last November, the UK government announced a bold plan to phase out animal testing in some areas of research. Animal tests for skin irritation are scheduled for elimination this year, and some studies ...

A patient in China with hepatocellular carcinoma survived 171 days following xenotransplantation with a genetically modified ...

In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers have developed a new bioprinting strategy that allows ...