organs
More Than Half of Donated Hearts and Lungs Get Thrown Out
But scientists may have discovered a workaround.
Vatican Officials Will Declare Organ Trafficking a Crime Against Humanity
And China is in hot water for accusations that it’s still using organs from executed prisoners.
Four Ways We Can Shorten the Organ Donor Waitlist
More than 20 people die every day waiting for a transplant.
Reprogramming Organs Could Be the Future of Transplants
This could mean safer life-saving organ transplants.
Meet the Human Organ You Didn't Know You Had
The finding could open up new possibilities for researching intestinal diseases.
3D Printed Organs Look, Feel and Bleed Like the Real Thing
The realistic-feeling organs help medical students and for doctors practice difficult surgeries ahead of time.
This Documentarian Wants Us to All Eat Human Placenta
"When I actually tasted it, what I got right away was that it was very tender, like a piece of tenderized beef. It tasted like it, too."
How to Eat Testicles
Fried testicles look a bit like round slices of ham, and have that same structure. They are crisp and brown on the outside, with meaty flavors and softness on the inside.
Police Are Trying to Figure Out Who Left a Human Heart in an Ohio Park
"It was fresh; it wasn't decomposed."
HIV-Positive Organ Donors Are Now Able to Save Lives
With the advent of the first HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants in America this year, 500 to 2,000 new donors will be generated annually.
Is It Ethical to Grow Human Organs Inside Animal Chimeras?
Even if creating human-animal “chimeras” is not intrinsically wrong, is there an ethical problem in experimenting on and harvesting organs from a creature that is part-human?
Why Is the Appendix Still a Thing?
You'd think we would have evolved to not have useless, exploding organs anymore.