Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for Mendaera’s Focalist, a handheld robotic system ...

Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain ...

With the clearance, Mendaera is starting a limited launch of Focalist with select medical institutions this year.

The UCLA advance opens the door to growing other vascularized organ models, including intestines and colons, providing ...

These dynamic cells don't work alone, they coordinate their movements using a communication system previously ... insights into how organs form and what can go wrong with developmental disorders. Due ...

Pulse Why India’s organ donation system needs an urgent fix Despite rising pledges, gaps in healthcare infrastructure, ventilator access and communication leave thousands of pledged organs unused ...

By some metrics, the organ donation and transplantation system in the U.S. does more transplants than any other country. According to data compiled by the Global Observatory on Donation and ...

It also overlooks the landmark 2022 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on modernizing the organ donation system. This was a report mandated by Congress, yet it ...

Being from Hawai’i, I’ve seen firsthand how geographic location contributes to inequities in the organ transplant system. For example, over the past eight years, 604 kidneys were donated locally in ...

A new analysis finds that an organ’s biological age might predict a person’s risk of diseases such as cancer, dementia and heart disease.

Records show that when the system’s oversight committee reviews instances of bypassed patients, it closes more than 99.5 percent of cases without action, usually concluding that the organ was at ...