This breakthrough represents a big step toward creating animal hybrids capable of growing human-compatible organs, easing the ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale behind the NIH ban that human cells could make pigs too human rests on a ...

Scientists have discovered a method of helping human stem cells thrive in an animal embryo—a key development in efforts to ...

In response to the international shortage of donor organs, researchers have begun exploring how adult stem cells can be used to grow human organs inside the uterus of a pig, CNN reports. Scientists at ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have grown human cells inside pig embryos, a very early step toward the goal of growing livers and other human organs in animals to transplant into people. The cells made up ...

In a world-first, scientists at Tel Aviv University have successfully 3D printed a tiny human heart using real human cells.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The research involves implanting modified animal embryos with human 'induced pluripotent ...

Biomedical engineers have developed a silk-based, ultrathin membrane that can be used in organ-on-a-chip models to better mimic the natural environment of cells and tissues within the body. When used ...

This week's news about researchers growing a new heart from baby cells was exciting, no doubt - a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, led by Doris Taylor, grew a beating rat heart by ...

Scientists in Japan will begin trying to grow human organs in animals after receiving government permission for the first study of its kind in the country. The cutting-edge -- but controversial -- ...