In yet another sign of xenotransplantation creeping toward reality, a medical team at NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday that, for the third time, a kidney from a genetically modified pig had been transplanted into a living patient.  Surgeons performed the procedure over seven hours on November 25. The organ recipient, a 53-year-old woman named Towana

December 20, 2024 4 min read Our Bodies Are So Ready to Celebrate the Rebirth of the Sun The winter solstice is the culmination of a period every year when each cell in our body literally craves more light By Gary Stix edited by Dean Visser Winter solstice in snowy forest. Iryna Khabliuk/Alamy Stock Photo

An Alabama woman is free from dialysis and in better health after surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a gene-edited pig kidney transplant last month. The procedure marks the latest promising breakthrough in an emerging surgical practice posited as the solution to the organ supply crisis. Towana Looney, 53, donated a kidney to her mother

Gen Z of legal age are having less sex than any generation in history – and experts warn it could lead to their genitalia shrinking. Dr Tara Suwinyattichaiporn, a sex and relationship expert, told DailyMail.com that people who are sexually inactive can experience a very rare condition called penile atrophy or vaginal atrophy – where tissue can

Multi-organ on a chip device. Credit: Naveed Tavakol and Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard As astronauts venture further into space, their exposure to harmful radiation rises. Researchers from Columbia University are simulating the effects of space radiation here on Earth to determine its impact on human physiology using multi-organ tissue chips. Their work documents the differential effects seen

CNN  —  Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine. Looney, 53, is from Alabama and had the transplant at NYU Langone Transplant Institute in New York on November 25.

CNN  —  Too many fingers or too many teeth — as generative AI imagery exploded across the internet last year, these bodily mishaps became both a punchline and a tell-tale sign that these photographs weren’t real. Instead, they were a machine’s best-guess at the world through human prompts. The images that went viral were often

Scientists have discovered something that could put a question mark on everything we thought we knew about life on Earth. A research team led by Dr Ivan Zheludev from Stanford University has found evidence of what they call “alien life” living inside the human body. The research published in 2024 says that these strange organisms

On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified pigs to transplant their organs into human patients. Revivicor, the biotech company Ayares leads, is at the forefront of xenotransplantation research – the implantation of animal organs into humans – which aims to solve the

A surgical team at NYU Langone Health hospital, including Dr. Robert Montgomery (right), transplants a kidney from a genetically modified pig into patient Towana Looney, who’s been on dialysis since 2016. Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health hide caption toggle caption Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health NEW YORK – Towana Looney can hardly contain

December 17, 2024 3 min read Why Some Brains Don’t Rot and Other Wild Things We Learned about the Human Body in 2024 From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’tdecompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology By Tanya Lewis Bob_Bosewell/Getty Images

An email like that might have sunk a vendor in any other business. In fact, as Andy North, a Health Science Center spokesperson, recently told NBC News of the center’s work with Med Ed Labs: “This should never have happened, and we will ensure it never happens again.” But back in late 2021, Nassiri apologized

The project will take the advantages of latest advances in data and computational sciences to uncover composing principles of the human body, to generate a digitized model called Meta Homo Sapiens, and to build a ‘GPS’ (Global Positioning System) for the human body and the body’s states. Credit: π-HuB Consortium Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI)

Sensor-equipped wearables like smartwatches, fitness bands, rings, and even some internet connected clothing have lurched their way into mainstream acceptance in recent years. Though many of the devices have become more compact over successive iterations, almost all still need some sort of battery to hold power. Batteries can add weight and need to be charged