Dr. Jeffrey Laitman joins WIRED to break down how our organs and body parts age from head to toe. From hearing and hair loss ...

Behold, the human brain: Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex ... a lot about what makes the organ tick. Check out the quiz below to test your knowledge of the human brain and ...

Your surgeon might take a CT scan and ... learning how to grow organ-specific cells outside the human body and keep them alive. (Some cells, he explained, like those of the pancreas and the ...

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 ...

An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body later ... engineered pig organs as an alternative source to human organs.” ...

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. If you find your ...

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 ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited pig kidneys, hearts, and now livers into the human body. © l i g h t p o e t via Shutterstock We’ve reached a ...

after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human ...