A single genetic “switch” may be the secret to how the body’s cleanup crew grows up and keeps our organs running smoothly.

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Researchers at the University of Liège have identified a key genetic regulator that enables macrophages to reach full ...

Never-before-seen 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue have been created at a cellular level. The details obtained by a team of UW Medicine and University of Washington engineers and physicians ...

Organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) now accounts for nearly half of all deceased organ donors in the U.S., marking a dramatic shift in transplant practice over the past 2 ...

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A man lived for 171 days with a genetically modified pig liver, the greatest advance to date in xenotransplantation.