March 16, 2012 — -- Monir Moniruzzaman doesn't look like James Bond, or even George Smiley, but for 15 months he prowled through the dark and dangerous alleyways of Bangladesh, searching for what ...

Unlike traditional transplant approaches, the goal is not to permanently replace a failing liver, but to create a temporary, functional organ that can support patients long enough for their own liver ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Animal Pharm” on Sunday, May 18, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re ...

Both scientific and policy advancements could provide desperately needed organs for transplantation. For example, there have been some promising early studies using kidneys from pigs genetically ...

Picture this: a 3D printer that can build a viable human organ at the push of a button. Sounds futuristic, but Dallas ...

A crackdown on problems with fairness and safety is achieving results, including a big drop in the number of sick patients ...

Human organs could be bioprinted for transplants within 10 years, according to Lithuanian startup Vital3D. But before reaching human hearts and kidneys, the company is starting with something simpler: ...