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

Why must they? What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary groups of animals? Chromatophores are organs that are present in the skin of many ...

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 ...

The controversy stems from the daunting immunological barrier to transplanting organs between disparate species and from the possibility that an animal organ or tissue might transmit an infectious ...

The tantalizing possibility of using a potentially unlimited supply of organs from animals to replace damaged human ones -- through xenotransplantation -- has, in just the past few years, jumped the ...