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“This is the first time we tried to unravel whether the pig liver could work well in the human body and … whether it could replace the original human liver in the future. It is our dream to ...

Smoking can cause long-term negative effects on the body, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Smoking is dangerous to your health. It can harm nearly every organ in your body and ...

"Surgery was really successful," he told a news conference. "The liver from the pig functioned very well in the human body. So it's a great achievement." Hearts and kidneys from genetically ...

Consuming unhealthy foods can negatively affect your body. While you don't have to avoid these things completely, it's a good idea to limit them ...

Natural steroid supplements are compounds that act similarly to the steroids that the human body naturally produces, such as the hormone testosterone. Some people may be interested in taking ...

A week-long manhunt is over with police charging a man with murder after human remains belonging to a missing person were found partially buried in a semi-rural paddock.

Similarly, lower gravity means the body isn’t pulled down as much as it is on Earth. That results in astronauts growing a little taller, which was found with Williams and Wilmore. The spine ...

Weightlessness may feel exhilarating at first – like an extended holiday, according to British astronaut Tim Peake – but the lack of gravity causes the body to quickly lose strength and resilience. In ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

Human endogenous retroviruses that colonized vertebrate DNA millions of years ago have long been dismissed as junk DNA, but researchers now know that they may play important roles in cancer, ...