To date, there are 79 generally recognized organs in the human body, both internal and external. This is not a question with ...

The external structure of the ear is one of ... But the first successful transplant of a major organ—an organ vital to human function—didn’t happen until 1954, when Ronald Herrick, a 23 ...

For years, scientists have predicted that 3-D printing—which has been used it to make toys, homes, scientific tools and even a plastic bunny that contained a DNA code for its own replication—could one ...

In 2015, after Hevel’s father died from Lewy body dementia, her family wanted to offer his brain for research—but knew that it would take much more than an organ donor card. The experience ...

He and his team focused on these particles’ accumulation and distribution in human organs. Their findings, published in Nature Medicine, revealed that MNPs accumulated at higher levels in the brains ...

Organoids are made to model human organs and are promising for research ... These insights provide a clearer understanding of how external factors regulate liver development and offer a novel ...

which will then be ‘printed’ in its proper place to gradually build up the target organ or tissue. The project’s five year goal is the printing of a fully functioning human heart and ...