To serenade with their high-pitched songs, singing mice inflate a throat sac — a use for air sacs seemingly unknown in any ...

An overlooked organ may a master switch to a longer, healthier life. While every organ in the human body has a purpose, some serve theirs for only a short time — or so we previously thought. Now, new ...

As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a bold idea for an alternative to animal testing: nonsentient “organ sacks ...

As far as organs go, the thymus is underrated. This little-known gland sits inside the chest next to the heart and the lungs. And while we typically retain it into adulthood, it is most active before ...

When Raven Kinser walked into a Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office two summers ago, she completed a driver's license application that included the option to register as an organ donor. The ...

Etan Yeshua is a registered nurse in the intensive care unit of an East Coast hospital. For decades, I have encouraged friends and family to register as organ donors. As an intensive care nurse, I’ve ...

Being from Hawai’i, I’ve seen firsthand how geographic location contributes to inequities in the organ transplant system. For example, over the past eight years, 604 kidneys were donated locally in ...

One of New Jersey’s largest organ procurement organizations is under investigation by a United States House of Representatives committee for a number of allegations, ranging from discarded organs to a ...

The chief executive of an organ donation organization in New Jersey ordered staff to continue harvesting organs from a patient who had shown signs of life, House committee investigators charge. The ...

Do you wake up in the middle of the night and need to drink water? Or notice that your mouth constantly feels like it’s filled with cotton balls? You might have dry mouth (a.k.a. xerostomia), an oral ...

The world's largest theater pipe organ can be found in a Franklin warehouse. The massive instrument is the brainchild of Paul Woelbing. When Woelbing is asked why he put the theater organ together, he ...