An unsung appendage in the female body, which has long been considered useless, may actually be essential for ovary ...

Baltimore filmmaker John Waters (voluntarily) spent the night in jail with four winners of an auction to raise money for the ...

In terms of historical precedent, the advent of xenotransplantation was documented in 1906, marking a landmark episode of kidney transplants from sheep and pigs to human recipients ... carbon based or ...

An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body later rejected. When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a ...

Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ ...

AUSTIN, Texas (WKRC) - A mortuary owner was accused of "experimenting" on severed body parts from corpses she was in charge of cremating. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by local ...

The FDA has permitted eGenesis to begin a clinical trial of a dialysis-like system that involves using a gene-edited pig ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment ...

It sends messages from your brain to the rest of your body and helps you respond to changes inside and around you. Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system.

The university fired him in 2023. By Neil Vigdor A former manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School will plead guilty to stealing body parts that had been donated for research and selling ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...