The largest muscle in the human body is the Gluteus Maximus ... In the upper right part of your abdomen, the liver is your body's filtration system. It filters toxins out of the blood and produces ...

A genetically modified porcine liver has been successfully transplanted into a human subject, constituting a historic ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

Discover how smoking attacks virtually every organ, from lung destruction and heart damage to fertility problems, weakened ...

Marcus Edsall-Parr, a teenage kidney patient in Michigan, has been getting dialysis treatments for years. Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times The sickest patients are supposed to get priority ...

Mr Shribman: Yeah, so one of the systems in the human body is the digestive system. Ours is simpler than some other animals', like cows and deer have multiple stomachs, we just have the one.

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. The heart is the central organ ...

New alternative methodologies (NAMs) are advantageous because they are often human (although not always). Microphysiological systems (MPS), also known as Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) are a type of NAM.

The operation used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being rejected by ...