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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 ...

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

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 ...

Dr. Jeffrey Laitman joins WIRED to break down how our organs and body parts age from head to toe. From hearing and hair loss ...

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

After last week’s essay about this disease condition, it has become necessary to help readers understand the peculiar nature of the organ.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

The remarkable functions of the liver include filtering blood, processing nutrients, and detoxifying harmful substances.