The National Institutes of Health’s hold on acquiring fetal tissue may affect labs conducting cancer research, according to STAT. “If they don’t procure new fetal tissue by, say, end of January, ...

Fertility doctors don’t give standing ovations very often. But when a team of Swedish doctors announced at a recent conference the first-ever birth of a baby to a woman who had a womb transplant, it ...

Many women are turning to egg freezing to promote fertility, but what happens when it isn't an option because of special medical or other conditions? And, what option is there for women who want to ...

Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are on the national transplant waiting list. Yet, organ non-utilization, where an organ is harvested but not ...

On the morning of Jaiwen Hsu’s stem cell transplant in November 2023, the atmosphere in the hospital felt electric. Doctors had never before tried what they were going to attempt with someone like Hsu ...

This is the first time that brain tissue has been cryogenically frozen and revived without damage. In a process called vitrification, researchers treated slices of mouse brains with cryoprotectants ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans. Findings from the new ...