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With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

In a groundbreaking medical achievement, researchers have announced the successful transplantation of a genetically modified pig liver into a human patient, marking a significant stride in the fight ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs from ...

Safely transplanting organs from animals into humans happens in multiple steps that minimise the risk of the recipient’s immune system rejecting the new organ ... while many are altered to suit the ...

For nearly 70 years scientists have been probing, measuring, drilling and generally getting to know South Cascade Glacier in the US Northwest, developing and honing skills now used worldwide ...

but causes serious damage to the body's organs, including internal lacerations, ruptures, bleeding and organ failure. Lu and Yun Liang, an assistant professor in the College of Osteopathic ...

But the human immune system still has ways to recognize ... head home from New York in late February. To produce organs that the human body won’t reject, scientists edit pig DNA, transfer ...

A team led by researchers at University College London in the United Kingdom has made a finding that a blood test to detect the biological age of organs can predict the risk of health conditions ...

Their study, published in The Lancet Digital Health, found that faster aging of a specific organ increases the likelihood of diseases affecting the whole body ... or organ systems — the arteries ...