Can Cloning Make You Live Forever? Controversial Human Clones Could Offer Spare Human Organs For "Part Replacement" in the Future

Medicine & Technology Feb 08, 2023

A biotech company is exploring the controversial possibility of growing human clones that would serve as sources for spare human organs for part replacement. Read to know more.

Damaged Liver Repaired by Keeping Organ Alive Outside Human Body for 3 Days Before Transplant

Jun 01, 2022

A Swiss medical team kept a liver alive outside a human body for three days before being transplanted. Find out more about the technology the team used.

Printable Bioink Makes 3D Printed Human Organs Possible

Mar 21, 2021

Made from combined alginate derived from seaweed and lung tissue, the bioink allows biocompatible constructs assembling human-sized airways to be 3D printed.

Researchers Want to Create 'An Atlas of Human Pollution'

Aug 18, 2020

Researchers discover microplastics in the organs of cadaver donors, revealing that everyone inevitably ingests plastic pollution. The team from Arizona State University hope to create 'an atlas of human pollution' to show how much of the organs are exposed to microplastic particles.

SpaceX Delivered Human Organs to ISS

Jun 13, 2019

NASA has tasked SpaceX to deliver human organs from the Earth to the International Space Station ISS.