Miniature organs have a new lifeline. Mimicking the way early human embryos grow blood vessels, scientists nudged multiple types of mini organs to sprout their own vascular networks. Also called ...

NASA wants to fly human organs around by drone. Fresh off the success of the Artemis II moon flyby mission, the space agency ...

I held the lungs in my hands, thinking about how apparent the effects of smoking were. That moment stuck with me throughout ...

Surgeons and doctors often rely on artificial models to practice delicate procedures. Yet most training tissues feel stiff, simple, and far from realistic. That gap between training models and real ...

Imagine what brain surgeons could do with a three-dimensional (3D)-printed model of the brain. Not a structural model printed in plastic and uniform throughout, but one that mirrors the heterogeneity ...

A new open-access portal allows online users to explore human organs – such as the brain, heart, lungs, kidney and liver – in unprecedented detail. The Human Organ Atlas (HOA) is a repository of ...