The organs of a Kentucky donor who had been declared dead were ready to be harvested — but then doctors made a startling discovery: he was still alive. “He was moving around — kind of thrashing.

A recent news report out of Kentucky revealed a slim but pointed risk regarding organ donation, one that underscores a key Church teaching about how the process of gifting one’s organs must play ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, various diseases and even the origin of life. When you purchase through ...

“That’s everybody’s worst nightmare, right?" said organ preservationist Nyckoletta Martin. "Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open" Getty Anthony Thomas ...

In October 2021, doctors at a Kentucky hospital were moments away from cutting into a man who was declared dead to harvest his organs — until the supposed cadaver started weeping. "He was moving ...

The first time I saw ovaries was in a middle school health class. The gym teacher awkwardly pointed at a diagram on a projector screen as he informed us that women were born with all the eggs they ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...

The organs play a vital role in the Abbey’s life and worship. They support the singing of the Choir, help congregations to raise the roof in hymn-singing, create the atmosphere for services and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian health officials are scrambling to explain how six transplant patients in the country’s well-regarded public health system received organs infected with HIV — and ...

These are the primitive sex cells that will form eggs and sperm. If bird becomes male, Wolffian ducts develop into vas deferens or sperm duct and Mullerian ducts atrophy. The reverse occurs in the ...

Six people including several doctors have been jailed in China for illegally harvesting organs from accident victims, report local media. The group had tricked the families of the deceased into ...