In the short term, these multi-zonal liver organoids will help scientists shed new light on diseases including diabetes, drug-induced liver injury, alcohol-related liver disease, and viral hepatitis.

and researchers have been working to figure out what might happen to the human body during these extended voyages. Kidneys have been a big question mark. Recent work reveals that these important ...

The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and died in January, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Lynn Sutfin said. A subsequent investigation ...

In the piece, 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.

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 ...

We look at the science behind the most complex organ transplant so far carried out between a human and a pig The researchers transplanted the liver from a Bama miniature pig, a laboratory line of ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical research. A steadily growing idea is one known as “bodyoids ...

The study is part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human whole organ transplants, in a practice known as "xenotransplantation". Researchers, particularly in the US and China ...

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 ...

"We're only talking about using pig organs as a bridge to a human transplant, so we'll get you through the next few months or through the next few years. That doesn't solve the organ shortage ...

Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages. Why do we hear about medical breakthroughs in mice, but rarely see them translate into ...