Discover the profound impact of organ and bone marrow donation as WRAL delves into commonly asked questions surrounding ...

While some animals like mammals have a limited ability to regenerate lost tissues, planarians can be cut roughly in half and ...

D printing skin, bone, and even working organs could change transplant medicine and medical research — but how, exactly, does ...

Microplastics have previously been detected throughout the human body including in the blood, saliva, liver, kidneys, lungs, ...

A former Harvard morgue manager, Cedric Lodge, hasagreed to plead guilty to stealing and selling body parts from donated ...

Once one of these organs fails, especially without successful resuscitation, it triggers a rapid domino effect. The others ...

The rete ovarii, a poorly understood structure connected to the ovaries, may be much more essential to ovarian function than ...

Americans hated offal. Now it’s a trendy food—in grocery stores and online.

We look at some recent studies that use organ-on-a-chip models to provide insights into human biology and drug.

One reason why our livers excel at clearing waste from our blood system is that the organ functions according to three key ...

On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the journey of animal to human transplants, or xenotransplants, over the last ...