The organs showed neural activity for up to 36 hours, adding fuel to discussions about the ethics of future neuroscientific research.

The devices, which could one day treat children with esophageal atresia and short bowel, were recently tested in pigs.

A study confirms that the spaces between cells are fluid-filled, rather than tightly packed with connective tissue, but pathologists say the findings’ implications remain to be seen.

Cardiologists have found a way to cool the human heart in a localized way to help reduce muscle damage from heart attacks. 

Reuters sheds light on the largely unregulated trade of human body parts taken from human cadavers donated for science. 

Scientists look to a leaf beetle’s genitals for lessons on improving catheter strength.  

Scientists engineered a synthetic, nutrient-rich gel that feeds growing organoids as they mature from human pluripotent stem cells into 3-D bowels.

High-resolution MRI reveals that human fetal hearts rapidly develop their major structures within a four-day period.

Tissue “seeds” made up of three cell types and patterned onto a scaffold develop into complex structures with some organ function, researchers show.

Increasingly sophisticated tissue organoids can model many aspects of disease, but animal studies retain a fundamental role in research, scientists say. 

Researchers grow kidney-like structures from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Researchers make more progress toward growing human intestines in mice, paving the way for better models of intestinal function and failure.

The list of the year’s best new products contains both perennial winners and innovative newcomers.

Researchers successfully transplant engineered esophagi into living rats.

Doctors implant custom-made organs, built from a tissue sample and a biodegradable scaffold, into four female patients born with underdeveloped or missing vaginas.

Plastic bones and organs based on CT scans could educate students or prepare surgeons to perform complicated operations.

Drosophila insulin-like peptides (dILPs) regulate part of the signaling pathway that helps keep organs growing in proportion during development.

During development, communication between organs determines their relative final size.

Why scientists are so near and yet so far from being able to cryopreserve organs