With 40,000 snails under its care - and more to come - the WholeSnail firm aims to produce mucin for beauty products and ...

Ukraine is set to deploy new "snail robots" on the frontlines of its war with Russia, allowing its forces to be supplied in tricky terrain swamped by Russian President Valdimir Putin's troops.

More than 1,300 pea-sized, critically endangered snails that were bred in a zoo have been set free to wander (very slowly) on a remote Atlantic island. The release brings two species of Desertas ...

A rare snail species that had likely become extinct in the wild was recently reintroduced to the Hawaiian landscape. Known as Achatinella fuscobasis, the snail species had dwindled to only 11 ...

THE first person in the UK to have all of her major organs transplanted has died aged 46 - more than a decade after her ground-breaking operations. Allison Angell suffered from cystic fibrosis and ...

THE presence of chitin in the above-mentioned organ has been indicated so far by means of colour reactions only, probably owing to the laek of material. During the course of another investigation ...

The cone snail, with its attractive shell, is surprisingly deadly due to its fast-acting venom. While it primarily targets fish, divers can be at risk from its toxic sting. Dubois' sea snake ...

ABC News visits scientists raising pigs with genetically modified organs. There are more than 100,000 people currently waiting for an organ transplant and it’s estimated that another person is ...

These organizers provided instructions to the stem cells through biochemical signals called morphogens, which stimulated and enabled the stem cells to grow into specific complex tissues and organ ...

The models can be used to plan surgeries and in the future could be used to help trial new drugs. A healthy heart beats at a steady rate, between 60 and 100 times a minute. That’s not the case ...

Researchers from UC San Francisco and Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to prompt stem cells to form specific organs. It sets the stage for growing human organs from scratch – a long-time goal of ...

Some hope pig kidneys might one day help ease a dire shortage of transplantable organs. (AP video/Shelby Lum) Attempts at animal-to-human transplants failed for decades. Now scientists can edit pig ...