What's the Least Useful Body Part?
We’re all familiar with the flashy, big-ticket organs: the heart, the brain, the lungs. Their celebrity often obscures…
In World First, Woman Gives Birth After Receiving Uterus Transplant from Dead Donor
A team of doctors in Brazil have announced a medical first that could someday help countless women unable to have…
Man Redefines Horror By Building a Singing Furby Organ
As if the fear of a looming nuclear war wasn’t enough, Sam Battle, the hacker-musician behind the YouTube channel Look…
Scientists Make a Crazy Breakthrough in Cryopreserving Organs
Transplants aren’t as easy as heading to the organ bank and using your organ card to withdraw an organ from the organ…
Human-Pig Chimeras Suggest a Long Road to Organ Farming
Several dozen embryos sat in a lab that seemed straight out of a David Lynch film—part pig, part human. It’s just the…
Ridiculous Rat-Grown Mouse Organ Transplant Cures Diabetic Mice
It’s a beautiful tale of graciousness and sacrifice. Hopeless, drug-addled mice, suddenly stricken with diabetes, are…
Learning About Animal Genitalia Is Really Fascinating Stuff
Meet Patty Brennan, she has one of the most interesting jobs that anyone could possibly ever have because she’s an…
Your Appendix May Not Be as Useless as You Think
New research suggests that the appendix, long believed to be a throwback to our evolutionary past, may serve an…
We're One Step Closer to Growing Human Organs Inside of Pigs
In an effort to tackle the organ donor shortage, researchers in the United States have successfully created part-human,…
Scientists Want to Transplant Genetically Modified Pig Organs Into Humans
In news that sounds straight out of a dystopian Margaret Atwood novel, surgeons managed to keep a genetically modified…
This Heart-on-a-Chip Beats Like the Real Thing
Though it may not look at all like the muscle in your chest, this heart-on-a-chip can beat like the real thing. A blend…
How We'll Finally Put An End To Organ Donation Shortages
The waiting list for organ transplants is growing at an alarming rate while the number of potential organ donors has…
Surreal Collages of Animals, Plants, and Body Parts Are Subtly Creepy
Put these on your walls for a classier Halloween vibe than the one at my home. (I once recreated the X-Files "I Want to…
How the heart actually works
It pumps blood. Duh. Well, for most of history, people were unsure what the heart's main function was. Even Leonardo Da…
Doctors Can Now Grow Engineered Vaginas in Women
After decades of work, a team of doctors say they've successfully engineered vaginas that have been implanted and grown…
These Scarves Are Woven Music, Made With Patterns From Organ Punchcards
Did you know that the same kind of punched cards control both the jaunty tunes of old timey organs and the warp and…
How a human lung is kept alive and breathing for a transplant
It's a pumping lung in a box, basically. Al Jazeera America specifies that its more properly known as the Organ Care…
Watch a lung incredibly expand with air like a balloon
What you're looking at is a cat lung being blown up with a straw. I know. It's ginormous. More ginormous than what you…
3D-Printed Mini Human Liver Survives 40 Days, Works Like the Real Thing
Organovo's 3D-printed mini-liver just shattered its own record, carrying out the same cellular functions as a natural…
Scientists Have Grown Tiny Human Brains in Test Tubes
For the very first time, scientists have managed to create tiny, embryonic brains in test tubes. Say hello to baby…