The ultimate goal of this type of work is to grow human organs inside of other animals as a means to ending the organ shortage that is costing thousands of Americans — who need a transplant ...

“But the team have now grown an organ that forms all the cell types normally present in the human kidney.” By adding different concentrations of growth factors at various times, researchers ...

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

Other scientists, including Jun Wu, a stem cell biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, are also studying chimeras with the ultimate goal of one day being able to grow enough ...

Izpisua Belmonte is addressing the shortage of human organs for transplant with a scientifically innovative—albeit ethically controversial—solution: growing human cells in animal embryos to ...

Human brains are growing in size, causing a reduced risk of dementia, a new study has found. A team at UC Davis has made a ...

The radical “innovation” of xenotransplantation—the idea of transplanting genetically engineered organs from animals into ...

The team wants to develop chimeras—organisms composed of cells from two or more species—capable of growing human organs. Similar experiments using pig or sheep embryos have faced technical challenges, ...

Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount appears to be increasing over time. In the study, published in early ...