Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” grown from human cells. R3 Bio, a billionaire-backed biotech startup, is ...

New organ-on-a-chip recreates the cervix’s microbiome and immune system, revealing how bacteria shape STI infection risk.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a school age girl with dark brown skin presents a simplified diagram of the human body to a teacher. the diagram depicts various ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

Over one billion people worldwide are over 60, and the population is projected to more than double by 2050. But as more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Health Resources and Services Administration Administrator Thomas Engels says the agency is undertaking a sweeping overhaul of the ...

Surgical instruments and supplies lie on a table during a kidney transplant surgery in 2016 at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. (Molly Riley/AP) I concur with the March 28 ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a sweeping reform initiative of the nation’s organ transplant system after a four-year investigation by the Health Resources and ...