The author of “Convenience Store Woman” has gained a cult following by seeing the ordinary world as science fiction.

Over the course of a month, I downloaded every photo and diagram I ... and human bodies are, after all, mostly water. It’s the gas pockets inside certain organs that cause the real drama.

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...

According to three Stanford scientists, lack of human biological material is a “major bottleneck to progress” for medical research. A steadily growing idea is one known as “bodyoids ...

In the short term, these multi-zonal liver organoids will help scientists shed new light on diseases including diabetes, drug-induced liver injury, alcohol-related liver disease, and viral hepatitis.

If there’s even a tiny mismatch between how pig and human organs work, “I think we’re going to have problems.” But there’s certainly a need for new solutions for liver-failure patients ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

The study is part of a small — but growing — group of animal-to-human whole organ transplants, in a practice known as "xenotransplantation". Researchers, particularly in the US and China ...