The revolutionary advancement of lab-grown organ transplantation without rejection has the potential to redefine medical science. This innovation, steeped in the realms of bioengineering and ...

Her cystic fibrosis was threatening her life, and her case spurred a debate on how to allocate donor organs. Lungs and other organs for transplant are scarce. But what if there were another way? What ...

UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — Els van der Heijden, who has cystic fibrosis, was finding it ever harder to breathe as her lungs filled with thick, sticky mucus. Despite taking more than a dozen pills and ...

We may have seen the end of an era with Friday’s last-ever NASA shuttle launch. But a new age is upon us that could prove equally profound: This week, surgeons successfully complete the first-ever ...

The capacity of science to grow human organs in the lab – and successfully implant them back into the people from whose cells they came – has grown terrifically in recent years. Two new studies in The ...

Scientists have grown a fully functional organ from transplanted laboratory-created cells in a living animal for the first time. The researchers have created a thymus -- an organ next to the heart ...

Her cystic fibrosis was threatening her life, and her case spurred a debate on how to allocate donor organs. Lungs and other organs for transplant are scarce. But what if there were another way? What ...

Why transplant an organ when you can grow yourself a new one? This research isn't something that might happen in the distant future. It's being used today to grow fresh organs, open up new ways to ...

Dr Michelle Griffin, a plastic research fellow, poses for photographs with a synthetic polymer ear at her research facility in the Royal Free Hospital in London, Monday, March 31, 2014. In a north ...

The thought of lab-grown organs conjures up Frankenstein-like imagery. The reality however, is somewhat less visually dramatic, with the term ‘organoids’ used to describe tiny 3D structures of human ...

Twenty Americans die every day waiting for transplants. Now researcher Harald C. Ott thinks he’s found a way to save lives and meet the demand for replacement organs. WSJ’s Jason Bellini takes a look ...