A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...

For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...

Explore the alarming discovery of microplastics in human brain tissue, their potential health impacts, and the urgent need ...

Study reveals alarming accumulation of microplastics in human brains, especially in dementia patients, raising health concerns.

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples ...

United Therapeutics Corp. announced Feb. 4. that it will start a trial in mid-2025 with six patients who have end-stage renal disease. These patients, who have been on dialysis for at least six months ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.

Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their ...

“That would mean that our brains today are 99.5% brain and the ... then delivered to the organs that really like lipids — the brain is top among those.” The human brain is about 60% fat ...

His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from ...