Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

The human body is a wonderful biological work of art, composed of a great many organs, each carrying out special functions that are part of life and well-being. Though the human body contains about 78 ...

Using sophisticated screening across animal species, researchers at Yale have created a cellular blueprint of the human lung that will make it easier to understand the design principles behind lung ...

Your Blood Vessels Could Circle Earth Four Times Laid end to end, an adult's blood vessels could circle Earth's equator four ...

Sitting in his Rice University lab back in 2013, Jordan Miller was feeling stuck. The bioengineering assistant professor had spent months trying to do something no one had ever done before: create ...

Last year, 8,236 lung transplants were carried out worldwide, but thousands were left on waiting lists. More than 200 patients died before getting a donor organ in the EU alone. A PIG lung has been ...

For people who need a lung transplant, the wait is often prolonged by the frustrating fact that most donor organs have to be discarded: Only 20% of donated lungs meet medical criteria for ...