Organs from genetically modified pigs are being used in trials in China and the US.

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A novel PET imaging framework reveals that bariatric surgery impacts not only body weight, but also the metabolic function of ...

Artificial organs – grown in the lab and transplanted into someone’s body – have been on the horizon for some years now. They present many challenges but, if we can overcome them, they will open up ...

A Chinese research team has become the first in the world to successfully perform a surgery transplanting a genetically ...

This article was originally republished from The Conversation. Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both ...

Researchers have developed a human model in which they use organoids, or mini organs, to study the function of specific genes that are mutated in liver cancer. Using this method, they have found that ...