An all-in-one two-photon and/or confocal microscopy system called intravenous microscopy (IVM) was created and refined for in ...

A study revealing safety and ethical concerns over using animal organs in lifesaving ... altered pigs whose organs would not be rejected by the human immune system could help solve the current ...

Cells are the smallest unit of life. Cells in multicellular plants and animals are arranged into tissues, organs and organ systems. Cells. Tissues. Organs. Organ systems. And the organism itself.

A research team in Japan says it has successfully transplanted a pig kidney into a monkey, marking a step toward advancing to ...

The controversy stems from the daunting immunological barrier to transplanting organs between disparate species and from the possibility that an animal organ or tissue might transmit an infectious ...

These systems are being developed to better mimic some aspects of specific organ systems or combinations of organ systems to improve upon standard two-dimensional cell systems, with the goal of ...

Transplanting animal organs into humans is becoming more common ... because patients receiving a new organ have to take immune-system-suppressing drugs to prevent their bodies from rejecting ...

causes immediate organ rejection. The kidney for this experiment came from a gene-edited animal, engineered to eliminate that sugar and avoid an immune system attack. Surgeons attached the pig ...

Although it sounds like science fiction, the idea of transplanting animal cells, organs, and tissue into ... that it usually triggers severe immune system reactions in the recipient’s body.