Human Buddy is a new animated show that explores the wonders of the human body in a fun and entertaining style, similar to ...

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 ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monika Piotrowska, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with bioethicist and professor at Lehigh University, Michael Gusmano, about the ethics of using cloned, genetically modified pigs for human organ transplants. Like a page ...

ABC News visits scientists raising pigs with genetically modified organs. There are more than 100,000 people currently waiting for an organ transplant and it’s estimated that another person is added ...

Cloning human organs has sparked intense interest and debate in recent years, drawing attention from scientific, ethical, and medical communities. The potential for cloning human organs presents ...

Scientists have discovered a method of helping human stem cells thrive in an animal embryo—a key development in efforts to grow human organs in animals for medical transplants. A study by UT ...

But will these “bodyoids” ever be ethically acceptable? This week, MIT Technology Review published a piece on bodyoids—living bodies that cannot think or feel pain. In the piece, a trio of experts ...

Surgeon leading xenotransplantation trial aimed at solving shortage of human organs says edits can lessen risk of rejection ...

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