For generations, medical students were taught that the map of the human body was essentially complete. Yet cancer imaging has ...

Organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, are nonprofit entities in each state responsible for recovering organs from deceased donors. The federal government oversees 54 OPOs nationwide through two ...

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 ...

Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This development could bring experts closer to the goal of custom-growing human ...