Science news articles about 'human organ'

  • New study reveals pigs could grow human organs

    ... PhysOrg.com) -- At the annual European Society of Human Genetics conference, a group of researchers presented their newly discovered technique that may soon enable pigs to grow human organs for transplant ...
  • Why Does the Brain Need So Much Power? [News]

    ... well established that the brain uses more energy than any other human organ, accounting for up to 20 percent of the body's total haul. Until now, most scientists believed ...
  • Raising a stop sign to human traffic

    ... Business Advancement, they point out that human trafficking and trade in human organs has intensified with increased globalization ... , and Europe. Tansuhaj and McCullough emphasize that trade in human beings is not restricted to individuals trafficked illegally across ...
  • Raising A Stop Sign To Human Traffic

    ... researchers. However, writing in the Journal of Global Business Advancement, they point out that human trafficking and trade in human organs has intensified with increased globalization ...
  • Damaged protein is removed from the liver

    NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. biologists say they have created a method that, for the first time, can prevent the buildup of damaged protein in a human organ.
  • Declaration opposes transplant commercialism, transplant tourism and organ trafficking

    ... trafficking (the illicit sale of human organs), transplant commercialism (when an organ is treated as a commodity), and transplant ... . "The legacy of transplantation must not be the impoverished victims of organ trafficking and transplant tourism but rather a celebration ...
  • Functional food -- delicious and healthy

    ... . Incorporated in bread, cakes or dressings, they support the human organism without leaving an unpleasant aftertaste ... that we know from soy beans. According to the literature, they protect the organism against hormone-dependent forms of cancer ...
  • Scientist turns to ink-jet printer for a new heart

    The technology is the same as that of the simple inkjet printer found in homes and offices, but Japanese scientist Makoto Nakamura is on a mission to see if it can also produce human organs.
  • Transplant experts convene at ASN Renal Week 2008 to discuss organ trafficking

    ... is high, resulting in numerous reports of human trafficking as a source of organs. This troubling issue will be the topic ... trafficking (the illicit sale of human organs), transplant commercialism (when an organ is treated as a commodity), and transplant ...
  • Umbilical cord blood may help build new heart valves

    ... , they rely on replacements from animal tissue, compatible human organ donations or artificial materials. These replacements ... and is essential to tissue function and structure. Compared with human tissue from pulmonary heart valves, the tissue ...
  • Researchers compile 'molecular manual' for 100s of inherited diseases

    ... place only in specific tissues or organs. Experiments to directly study these interactions in human patients would ... model biological processes in tissues across the human organism, based on the knowledge from millions of already ...
  • Assembling cells into artificial 3-D microtissues, including a tiny gland

    ... cells in the body and might some day substitute for human organs. "We are really taking this into the third dimension ... to understand the way these cells behave in an organism, especially a human, you would like to recapitulate ...
  • Fewer calories equals less cancer?

    ... yeast, that cutting calories is the secret to a long lifespan - at least in a wide range of non-human organisms. But does this work ...
  • Majority of doctors skeptical of organ transplantation practices in China

    ... tourism to China has been isolated as particularly controversial. Organ procurement from executed prisoners in China has been reported ... ratified by the World Medical Association Statement on Human Organ Donation and Transplantation. "Physicians caring ...
  • World first: Chinese scientists create pig stem cells

    ... diseases, genetically engineering animals for organ transplants for humans, and for developing pigs that are resistant to diseases ... dimensions are largely similar to human organs. We could use embryonic stem cells or induced stem cells ...

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