What is the largest organ in the body? The skin is the largest organ in the body. It is an external rather than an internal organ. According to National Geographic, the average adult carries ...

Pig-to-human transplants are "the only near-term, viable solution to solving this huge shortfall in organ availability," Mike Curtis, CEO of eGenesis, the company that led the new research, told ...

But which of the body's organs weigh the most? The answer to that question may surprise you. These are 11 of the heaviest organs in the human body.

A Newsweek investigation has revealed a social media group advertising human organs available to purchase with cryptocurrency payments.

Learn all about the human body's many systems and some of its individual organs, both vital and vestigial.

Scientists have grown kidneys containing mostly human cells inside pig embryos, an important step toward growing kidneys and potentially other human organs that could be used for transplants in ...

This article from CN Bio explains how a human-relevant multi-organ microphysiological system can be established, connecting the gut and liver for preclinical oral bioavailability assessment.

Freeport High School students received recognition for a statewide poster creation contest to spread awareness about the importance of organ donation and transplants.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with bioethicist and professor at Lehigh University, Michael Gusmano, about the ethics of using cloned, genetically modified pigs for human organ transplants.

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

Human mini-livers pave the way for made-to-order organ transplants Scientists created fully-functional mini livers out of human skin cells, then successfully transplanted them into rats.

In Nepal’s ‘Kidney Valley,’ poverty drives an illegal market for human organs Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission told the NewsHour that at least 150 people sold their kidney from a ...