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As you age, you lose muscle and gain visceral fat around your organs. Scientists say your visceral fat to muscle ratio may ...

Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Tal Sharf's lab used organoids to make fundamental discoveries about human ...

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure ...

Dimension Bio wants to grow a simplified liver from cells to sustain patients long enough for a damaged liver to recover—or ...

In a successful transplant in a man with brain death, scientists prevented the immune system from attacking a genetically ...

"Since I was a kid, I would sleep-walk, drink, and eat. The sleep-drinking was the most problematic, because I've woken up drinking acetone, Windex, and contact solution before." ...

A pig kidney with one genetic change functioned in a brain-dead human for 61 days, more than doubling previous records.

In two studies published Thursday, researchers discovered why transplanted pig organs were being rejected from human patients and how to reverse it.