New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...

Every year on December 14th, World Monkey Day serves as a reason to celebrate these amazing animals. This year, we’re ...

In the latest research, led by experts at UT Southwestern, biologist Jun Wu identified a mouse cell protein named MAVS, which ...

The House Ways and Means Committee is demanding an answer from a New Jersey organ donation group accused of engaging in illegal practices, including harvesting organs from a person who was showing ...

The chief executive of an organ donation organization in New Jersey ordered staff to continue harvesting organs from a patient who had shown signs of life, House committee investigators charge. The ...

Evolution, and in particular sexual selection - the evolution of traits that increase an animal’s attractiveness to the opposite sex or allow them to outcompete sexual rivals - has produced some quite ...

A trip to a Spirit Halloween store in Plano turned into a wild scene Monday night after a pet monkey escaped its owner and began swinging through the rafters. What’s usually a store filled with fake ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, ...

As part of its efforts to strengthen the country’s organ transplant system, the US Department of Health and Human Services says it is moving to decertify a major organ procurement organization – ...

Some biohackers dream of a future where organ transplants help humans achieve immortality. But scientists say there are still major hurdles—for one, we can't yet transplant the human brain. A kidney ...

Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts. Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts.