July 3, 2019--(BRONX, NY)--In a study published online today in Nature, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe the first complete wiring diagram of the nervous system of an ...

If clinical trials ultimately prove successful, animals could help ease a critical shortage of donor organs. Of the more than 106,000 Americans waiting for a transplant , around 90,000 need a kidney.

This animal-to-human organ transplant, or xenotransplant, was made possible through advancements in gene-editing and cloning. With insufficient human kidneys to meet the demand for transplants, ...

Organ chip technology is still at an early stage. Emulate has focused first on using the tools to test drug safety. The next step is to do more testing of efficacy, so researchers can better ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.