Your heart pumps blood from your head to your toes, provides cells with fresh oxygen, and removes waste products. Located in ...

When biomedical researchers need to test their latest ideas, they often turn to engineered human tissue that mimics the ...

To explore possible treatments for various diseases, either animal models or human cell cultures are usually used first; ...

Could a simple blood test reveal how well someone is aging? A team of researchers led by Wolfram Weckwerth from the ...

When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or death. Extensive burns are usually treated by transplanting a thin layer of epidermis, the top layer of skin, from ...

The levels of caffeine in your blood could affect the amount of body fat you carry, a factor that in turn could determine your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Those are ...

Scientists announced this week that they have managed to keep a genetically modified pig lung alive inside a human body—although briefly—for the first time. The lung survived for nine days, marking ...

The first human case of the flesh-eating parasite "New World screwworm "has been detected in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services said early Monday. The case, involving a ...

A genetically modified pig lung remained viable and functional over a period of 9 days after being transplanted into a human recipient who had been declared brain dead, according to research published ...

Attorney Les Weisbrod, right, shows X-ray prints that were taken a few days after the surgery of Genaro Nava, left, during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Dallas. Chitose Suzuki / ...

Cardiac allotransplantation is warranted in children with end-stage heart failure or irreparable congenital heart disease. A dearth of organs for transplantation has contributed to long wait-list ...

Found in everything from food and water to the air we breathe, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or “forever chemicals,” are difficult to avoid. An analysis conducted by the Centers for ...