One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

The notion of creating human-like bodies without consciousness triggers deep moral unease. While we already study tissues ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical research. A steadily growing idea is one known as “bodyoids”—biological ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...

The study is part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human whole organ transplants, in a practice known as "xenotransplantation". Researchers, particularly in the US and China ...

The need for organs and other human biological materials is dire ... For years, scientists have conducted research on animated, or living, cadavers—brain-dead bodies kept alive via medical ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...