Lab-grown "bodyoids" could transform medical research and organ transplants, but raise ethical questions about defining human ...

Bone can heal itself, but not always in the ways we expect. Some animals regrow entire limbs. Others, like humans, can only ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical ...

Whether farmed for meat or used as subjects in medical research, animals are deeply sentient beings, whose suffering remains ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

Space changes the human body in many ways. From bone loss to bloated faces, here's how microgravity and radiation affect the ...

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...

Scientists have successfully transplanted a pig’s liver into a human for the first time, raising hopes this could one day ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now ...