Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This ...

It's still early days, but this technology is a hopeful step. Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics ...

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable human organs. More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list ...

Until just the past few years, transplants almost always involved human organs. Now, early experiments in xenotransplantation — transplanting animal organs into humans — are creating potential ...

A gene-editing delivery system developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers simultaneously targeted the liver and ...

This animal-to-human organ transplant, or xenotransplant, was made possible through advancements in gene-editing and cloning. With insufficient human kidneys to meet the demand for transplants ...

A new type of sensor may soon change how doctors understand what’s happening inside the human body. Scientists at Stanford University have created a biosensor that works continuously in live blood ...

One held a biocompatible plastic that, when printed, would form the interlocking structure of a scaffold—the skeleton, essentially—of a printed human organ or body part. The others could be ...