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 ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of an organ that passed very quietly from this world on the day that you were born, the placenta. Also called the afterbirth, it’s the human body’s ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers used cutting-edge blood plasma proteomics to investigate if human organs age at different rates. They analyzed 11 organs in almost 5,700 ...

Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought "holy grail" of organ transplantation medicine that remains elusive. New research from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically ...

Resurrection beyond cellular disintegration is simply impossible. However, when a person dies, cell death itself isn’t instant. Researchers are taking advantage of a timed window during which they can ...

Rhabdomyolysis is a condition in which muscle damage—often caused by drug intake—can lead to impaired kidney function and ...

About 17 people die each day in the US waiting for an organ transplant — 6200 per year. And for the more than 10,000 Americans on the waiting list for a liver transplant, the future of medicine may ...