About 17 people die each day in the US waiting for an organ transplant — 6200 per year. And for the more than 10,000 Americans on the waiting list for a liver transplant, the future of medicine may ...

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 ...

This article is part of TIME for Change, a new series spotlighting extraordinary leaders who are working to solve urgent health problems—one bold idea at a time. It’s singular enough to be one of the ...

At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed themselves the first real optimism in decades. At an international conference, ...

UT Southwestern is joining a federal agency and several academic medical centers in an ambitious effort to add functional human organs to the growing list of items that can be produced through 3D ...

Today, more than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for an organ transplant. They’re seeking kidneys, livers, hearts and lungs — organs from human donors that could give these patients a ...

Quantitative imaging showed that each 5-point BMI increase enlarged the liver 12%, kidneys 9%, and pancreas 7%, linking adiposity to expanded at-risk cellular substrates. Histologic and biopsy ...