Using loopholes and fraud, brokers turn poverty in Bangladesh and demand for transplants in India into booming business.

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Are you looking for a hands-on way to teach your little ones about the human body? This fun Human Body Sensory Bin is a ...

Scientists with the NIH-backed SMaHT Network are mapping every DNA mutation in the human body, creating a groundbreaking ...

In the hippocampus, a critical brain region for learning and memory, new cells emerge in some people into late adulthood, ...

The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

In 1954, the world's first successful organ transplant took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in the form of a kidney donated from one twin to the other. At the time, a group of doctors and ...

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Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision ...

Scientists have achieved an unprecedented look into how the human immune system attacks a transplanted pig kidney, using spatial molecular imaging to map immune activity down to the cellular level.