No playing sports. No eating his favorite foods. And in nearly a decade on the transplant list, no luck getting an organ. Then, last spring, his doctor called. There was a perfect match.

The families of men who died in Alabama prisons and were returned without all of their organs sat in court Tuesday, watching as lawyers for the University of Alabama at Birmingham argued that the ...

Fewer critically ill Australians received life-saving organ transplants last year, despite a small increase in donors. Experts say there's been a welcome increase in older donors, but often their ...

A breakthrough in bioprinting of living tissues could soon lead to 3D-printing of blood vessels and human organs, ushering in a new era of regenerative medicine. Guohao Dai, a bioengineering ...

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 ...

When David Bennet received a new heart in January 2022, there was something very unusual about the organ being transplanted into his body – instead of coming from a human donor, it was actually a ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — After six decades of devotion to the organ, Maestro Leo Krämer treats the instrument like an extension of himself. He doesn’t even need to lay hands on it to hear in his mind how a ...

Historically, popes were often embalmed and some had their organs removed before burial – a church near the Trevi Fountain in Rome holds the hearts of more than 20 popes in marble urns, preserved as ...

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It's made up of a complicated network of cells and organs. It protects the body from infection, cancer, and other conditions. Lymph nodes are part of the immune system. They send out lymphocytes.

Bone marrow is considered the fourth largest organ in the body by weight, accounting for 4% to 5% of a person's total body weight. It is a spongy, jelly-like tissue located in the center of certain ...