“It was very real, it was heartbreaking ... Atala emphasized that his goal is to get a functioning, engineered large organ into a human being who desperately needs it, whether that organ ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs for transplantation. More than 100,000 people in the US are waiting for a ...

Scientists would be able to test new drugs on real human tissues and bodies without endangering sentient test subjects or relying on animals. Those in need of an organ transplant could even have ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Before, it was inconceivable: risk-free biomedical testing on living human organs. But new “organs-on-chips ...

Bodyoids is a biological structures created from human stem cells. Medical research is facing a severe shortage of human bodies and organs. In a new MIT Technology Review article, Stanford ...

Organoids that faithfully replicate the human liver are an essential tool for scientists who study the organ’s biology and disease. “There [is] outstanding hepatocyte diversity and associated ...