In theory, scarce organs are allocated based on medical necessity. In reality, they're sometimes sold to the highest bidder, ...

The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to ...

In the U.S., thousands of donated organs never reach the patients who need them. CBS News found that last year, one in three kidneys recovered from deceased donors were never transplanted. Specialized ...

Researchers have unveiled a new 3D‑printable material that can be stretched, sutured, and implanted, edging artificial organs ...

All four patients who received pig organs to replace their diseased organs have now died, though researchers involved in these transplants say they will keep trying to improve this alternative source ...

Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

Overcoming acquired treatment resistance is one of the major challenges in the fight against cancer. While combination ...

The scene at OneLegacy in Azusa on a recent Friday morning would have been familiar to anyone who’s been in a hospital intensive care unit. Three adults were tucked into hospital beds, still and ...

An Ohio couple whose teenage son was injured in a snowboarding accident has filed a lawsuit, claiming his doctors harvested his organs before he was declared dead. Eighteen-year-old Gregory Jacobs, of ...

New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...

Researchers found that cold is detected differently in the skin than in internal organs. This split system helps explain why ...

A research team led by Félix Viana, co-director of the Sensory Transduction and Nociception laboratory at the Institute for ...