One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

Small animals can have many skin diseases ... to detect tumour lesions. Diseases of the internal organs, such as the liver, pancreas and kidneys, require the collection of blood and urine samples as ...

Various other animal and plant species have also evolved their own ... At some point in its evolution, the tubeworm ditched its own gut and now depends entirely on an internal symbiotic organ called ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, thus reducing the chances of rejection. One common edit, for instance, ...