For something so small, the thymus has had an oddly quiet life in medicine. It sits behind the sternum and helps train T ...

The aging and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is damaged can spread to other organs, a study suggests. The ageing and failure of cells that occurs when one part of the body is ...

A few transplant patients in a small study were able to stop using immunosuppressive drugs, thanks to pre-transplant cell ...

Cancer cells that accumulate extra copies of their entire chromosome set can start behaving like immune cells, swallowing ...

A new study from scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that the cells shaping our organs may be far more mobile and coordinated than once believed. Using fruit flies as ...

Each day, 13 patients awaiting transplants for severe kidney disease in the U.S. lose their lives before a compatible kidney can be found. Frequently, it is simply that there are not enough donated ...

Organ transplants require drugs that reduce the chances of the body rejecting a donor organ, but these immuno-suppressive therapies also raise the risk of infection. That risk is ongoing as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SALT LAKE CITY — Prevalence of organ dysfunction appeared low among pediatric patients who underwent ...

In a feat that blurs the boundary between life and death, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have restored some cell function in the organs of dead pigs. The achievement, which was published in ...

Using a mouse model, researchers have deciphered an alternative route that certain cells take to make organs and used that knowledge to exploit a new type of stem cells as a potential source of organs ...