This article was originally republished from The Conversation. Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both ...

Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both strong contributors to today’s skyrocketing healthcare costs and ...

If a pig embryo infused with human cells truly became something close enough to count as a member of the human species, then ...

This breakthrough represents a big step toward creating animal hybrids capable of growing human-compatible organs, easing the ...

During the past ten years, scientists who study how the human body develops and functions on the most basic level have enjoyed a renaissance of sorts, thanks to structures called organoids–tiny 3D ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Pigs have ...

Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

A group of Dutch scientists believe they have discovered a brand new organ in the human body. It’s an impossibly small set of glands, dubbed “tubarial glands,” that sit in the skull where the nose and ...