A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a ...

O rgan transplants are a familiar idea. Organelle transplants, less so. Yet organelles are to cells what organs are to bodies ...

These advances have made it possible for scientists to create pigs with organs that are more compatible with human biology, ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

The blood flow to the organ was good, and there were no signs of immune rejection or accumulation of inflammation. “It’s a great achievement,” said Dr. Lin Wang, a co-author of the study ...

The number of functions attributed to any organ is often ... for the red cells of the blood, a number of which may be kept there ready to be brought back into the circulation at a time of emergency.

Compared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart ...

The Organ-on-a-Chip (OOAC) technology simulates various organ systems depending on the specific cell types seeded onto the ...

Research on this issue has mostly relied on real organs, making it difficult to study the detailed interaction between blood flow and tissue during an erection. In a recent study published in ...