How long can a human survive without certain organs? In this video, we explore what happens when the body loses or functions ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

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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 ...

When you sit down, your body naturally folds. That folding creates compression in the skin, fat, and connective tissue around ...

A tiny sensor that even makes a fingertip look large has the potential to be a game changer for detecting signs of rejection in kidney transplants. Scientists from Northwestern University have ...

A picture collage in memory of Jared Colon, a New Jersey teenager whose donated organs saved lives. (Dave Hutchinson/NJ Advance Media) One person dies every 2 1/2 days while waiting for an organ ...