MDI Bio Lab scientists discover how the fish solves a basic challenge in regenerative biology-insights in their newest publication in the journal Development could one day guide human repair.

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there are still huge hurdles to overcome ...

The current kidney care model—focused on late-stage disease and in-center hemodialysis—is unsustainable, because of costs, environmental burden, poor outcomes, and reduced quality of life.

High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects more than one billion people worldwide and is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke.

Mugambi Kiai, a seasoned human rights lawyer and activist who fought tirelessly for democratic space and good governance, is dead. The well-known crusader, who is brother to former Kenya National ...

If CMS proceeds with a proposed transparency rule in its Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, patient access, quality of care and trust could deteriorate, according to the American Hospital ...

Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken limbs, face plants — ...

A fast-aging fish is giving scientists a rare, accelerated look at how kidneys grow old—and how a common drug may slow that process down. Researchers found that SGLT2 inhibitors, widely used to treat ...

Study in a Sentence: Scientists have developed a new human-based endometrial model to study embryonic implantation in the early stages of pregnancy. Healthy for Humans: For pregnancy to begin, an ...

A New Hampshire man who became one of the first people in the world to receive a genetically modified pig kidney is home recovering in Concord after a human kidney transplant. Last year, Tim Andrews ...