Thousands of donated organs are discarded every year. As soon as one becomes available, doctors race to find a compatible recipient—but transplantation time lines are measured in hours, and many ...

Researchers investigating the rejuvenation effects of young rat blood plasma on the tissues of old rats have found astonishing results. According to the researchers’ study, the young rat plasma was ...

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Developing new medicines and understanding how they target specific organs often gives a crucial advantage in the fight against human diseases. An international team has developed a technology to ...

Scientists have performed the first successful transplant of an organ that had been cryogenically frozen and rewarmed, thanks to a new preservation chemical. Rats that were given transplants of ...

Germ cell production in genetically modified hybrid animals is now a reality rather than science fiction, as recently demonstrated by researchers at ETH Zurich. Stem cell biologist Ori Bar-Nur, PhD, ...

Miniature human livers have been successfully grown in a lab by scientists – who then transplanted them into rats. Human volunteers donated skin cells which researchers then developed into ...

Researchers generated rat sperm cells inside sterile mice using a technique called blastocyst complementation. Researchers generated rat sperm cells inside sterile mice using a technique called ...

Vol. 16, Supplement 5: Research from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science High ...

Cue the Jurassic Park theme song: Scientists in Switzerland appear to have pulled off a remarkable feat, creating sterile and seemingly healthy mice that can produce the sperm cells of a rat. These ...