Some bits of the resultant anatomy are body parts but not organs—arms, say. Organs are, for the most part, the bits where ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

Death is not a singular moment, but rather a process that marks the body's transition from life to the unknown. While the image of death is often portrayed as sudden, especially in cases of cardiac ...

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Researchers have found that decay of tissues after death can be halted and cell functions restored based on early experiments in pigs that may eventually help increase the number of ...

The future of life-saving treatments may be just a chip off the ‘ole blood sample. Scientists at Columbia University have created a set of real — and really tiny — human organs that interact on a chip ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.Pigs have ...