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 ...

Researchers from the Organoid group at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new way to grow organoids. Organoids are tiny ...

Although it sounds like science fiction, the idea of transplanting animal cells, organs, and tissue into humans has been around for over a hundred years. The main problem with xenotransplantation ...

According to Nature, a committee from Japan's science ministry signed off on a request by researchers to grow human pancreases ... of transplantable human organs from animals we already have ...

Growing new organs from scratch, healing old wounds in a flash, and other sci-fi-esque advances. By Andrew Paul By Andrew Paul By Laura Baisas By Andrew Paul By Bill Gourgey By Andrew Paul By ...

Organ-on-chip (OoC) is an integration of biotechnology with micro-fluidic chips and sensors to build miniaturised versions of ...

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 ...

Using animal organs in the human body is an old ... tweak to prevent any donated organs responding to human growth hormones and growing out of control. Another key alteration removes a sugary ...