Human mini-livers set the stage for an organ donor free future
Researchers developed a miniature liver from human skin cells
Tag: organ
Meet your new organ: the interstitium
Doctors believe this new organ might explain why cancer spreads so easily.
Researchers 3D-print shockingly realistic human organ models
This could soon pave the way for real, functioning organs.
Pig organ transplants into humans might be two years away in China
Scientists are now desperately seeking government approval for the 2019 clinical trial.
Meet the new organ of the human body: the mesentery
It's the 79th organ in the human body.
Scientists image organs at microscopic scales
In a new study published in Nature, researchers have demonstrated a technique that allows the mapping of organs at microscopic ...
Genetically-altered pigs to become humanity’s source for “spare” organs
Among all the species with which we share the animal kingdom, pigs are the ones whose organs are best suited ...
First 3D mini lungs grow in the lab help end animal testing
Stem cells were coaxed to grow into 3D dimensional mini lungs, or organoids, for the first time. These survived for ...
Bone marrow-on-a-chip could remove bone marrow animal testing
A new "organ on a chip" has been developed by Harvard researchers, reproducing the structure, functions, and cellular make-up of bone ...
Organ size is determined by a protein
The latest in a long line of studies conducted on the fruit fly showed that organs have the molecular mechanisms ...