A newborn with with severe gastroschisis — her kidneys, stomach, liver, fallopian tubes, intestines, and ovaries were outside of her body — improved within a few weeks A baby born with her organs ...

A major new review of evidence has sounded a dire warning about the global diet, establishing a link between Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) and adverse outcomes in every major organ system of the human ...

Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought "holy grail" of organ transplantation medicine that remains elusive. New research from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature, researchers used cutting-edge blood plasma proteomics to investigate if human organs age at different rates. They analyzed 11 organs in almost 5,700 ...

Resurrection beyond cellular disintegration is simply impossible. However, when a person dies, cell death itself isn’t instant. Researchers are taking advantage of a timed window during which they can ...

A multi-institutional team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has constructed a proteomic atlas of human aging across 13 organs, revealing tissue-specific aging clocks, transcriptome-proteome ...

While most people understand that excessive alcohol consumption harms the liver, the full extent of alcohol’s impact across the body remains largely underappreciated. The liquid that brings temporary ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Monday it has launched “a major initiative” to overhaul the nation’s organ transplant system. The announcement cites an investigation conducted ...

In a New York operating room one day in October 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient as part of a clinical trial. The kidney had ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Monika Piotrowska, University at Albany, State University of New York (THE ...