Many organs play important roles, but not all of them are required for survival. Some are removed because of injury, and ...

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people ...

A federal judge has set an October trial date in a lawsuit filed by North Carolina organ procurement nonprofit HonorBridge challenging new federal rules that could reshape how organ donation ...

Practice makes perfect, but if you're a surgeon, truly realistic practice also means doing so at the patient's risk. To provide surgeons and students with an alternative to a living human being to ...

Scientists have uncovered a powerful genetic switch that helps some of the body’s most important immune cells grow up properly and keep our organs healthy. The switch, called MafB, guides immature ...

FARGO -- Every part of the human body has some purpose, but it's easier than ever to get by with a few missing pieces. Rhonda Ketterling, Sanford Health's chief medical officer for the northern region ...

A single genetic “switch” may be the secret to how the body’s cleanup crew grows up and keeps our organs running smoothly.

Scientists in Germany have turned human organs transparent and captured pictures of the complex cellular architecture inside, the latest advance in an effort to develop a new way to see inside our ...

All four patients who received pig organs to replace their diseased organs have now died, though researchers involved in these transplants say they will keep trying to improve this alternative source ...

When a human heart was left behind by mistake on a Southwest Airlines plane in 2018, transplant officials downplayed the incident. They emphasized that the organ was used for valves and tissues, not ...