A person may be 55 years old on paper while their lungs, kidneys, or pancreas appear biologically older or younger.

June 12, 2025 -- Over 100,000 Americans are waiting for life-saving kidney transplants, with 17 dying each day. Why isn’t universal donation enough? Could xenotransplantation – transplanting ...

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 ...

Growing human organs inside pigs moved forward in labs, but not in Washington. That divide explains why gene-edited pig kidneys are now transplanted into people, while federally funded efforts to grow ...

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 ...

A world-first transplant in China has demonstrated that multiple gene-edited pig organs can function together inside a human body, marking a major step forward for transplant medicine.

Miniature organs have a new lifeline. Mimicking the way early human embryos grow blood vessels, scientists nudged multiple types of mini organs to sprout their own vascular networks. Also called ...

Cancer metastasis is responsible for at least two-thirds of cancer deaths. Drugs targeting the metastatic progression have largely failed, in part due to the lack of predictive models that would help ...

Surgeons have now published the first report of a gene-edited pig liver transplanted into a person. The liver, which came from a genetically modified pig, appeared to stay active, producing bile and ...

Scientists are repurposing this once non-essential organ to grow life-saving tissues on demand and from inside the body. The idea of using the body’s own organs as mini bioreactors to grow replacement ...