Not all organs are needed for survival. From your gallbladder to your spleen, here are 12 organs you can lose and still ...

When Russian president Vladimir Putin visited Beijing in September 2025, he told Chinese leader Xi Jinping that repeated ...

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Mass General Hospital ( MGH), the hospital in Massachusetts that had carried out the ...

Mr Andrews contacted the medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital ( MGH) that had carried out the operation. On January ...

A groundbreaking medical milestone was achieved with the first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human. The 71-year-old recipient survived for nearly six ...

Scientists say they are closer to understanding the best way to make the human body receptive to an organ donation from another species, an effort that could help solve an ongoing shortage of organs.

Martine Rothblatt sees a day when transplantable organs and 3D-printed ones will be readily available, saving countless lives—including her daughter’s. Organs on demand is one of MIT Technology Review ...

Surgeons removed a genetically modified pig kidney from a 67-year-old man last week, nearly nine months after he received the ...

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 ...

The risk of rejection can be offset by carefully matching the molecular similarities between a donor and patient and making ...

A newborn with with severe gastroschisis — her kidneys, stomach, liver, fallopian tubes, intestines, and ovaries were outside of her body — improved within a few weeks A baby born with her organs ...

When the human body gets hurt, most tissues heal—skin closes over a wound, bone heals itself. But not all organs heal that ...