but scientists have taken the important first steps by creating whole functioning organs in rats. Here are some recent successes: Heart: One of the earliest demonstrations of the scaffolding ...

More than 111 million rats and mice are estimated to be used in U.S. research labs each year, subjected to painful and ...

The families of men who died in Alabama prisons and were returned without all of their organs sat in court Tuesday, watching ...

For example, scientists recently reported the successful growth of mouse pancreases inside of rats. The ultimate goal of this type of work is to grow human organs inside of other animals as a ...

The mucosal layer in the small intestine degrades with age in rats, allowing digestive enzymes to slowly escape and leak into organs outside the intestine, including the liver, lung, heart ...

Known as the rat torture method, it originated in medieval Europe, a period of time that is remembered for its unique methods of torture and execution. While rats have been used as punishment methods ...

The team’s engineered esophagi included not only differentiated muscle cells, but also nerves and blood vessels, which are key to the survival of the implanted organs. (Stay tuned for a May feature on ...