Scientists finally found a way to thaw frozen human brain tissue without damaging it. In a groundbreaking development, scientists have discovered a new technique that allows human brain tissue to be ...

A grieving widow is campaigning to end a "postcode lottery" in brain cancer care, following her husband’s death this year. Ellie James’s husband, Owain, died in 2024 from a glioblastoma, a type of ...

On the morning of Jaiwen Hsu’s stem cell transplant in November 2023, the atmosphere in the hospital felt electric. Doctors had never before tried what they were going to attempt with someone like Hsu ...

In boys who, before starting puberty, undergo radical treatments that can affect their fertility, testicular tissue can be preventively removed and frozen. This is done to preserve testicular stem ...

Every day, people die waiting for an organ transplant. Time is at a premium, not just for those awaiting organs, but also for the organs themselves, which can deteriorate rapidly during transportation ...

A group of scientists have managed to thaw frozen human brain tissue without causing any damage to the tissue itself. The new research is coming out of the Fudan University in Shanghai, China, where a ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward safely freezing and reviving brain tissue by preventing the microscopic damage normally caused by ice crystals.

From "Alien" to "Interstellar," numerous sci-fi movies tackle the difficulties of keeping humans alive during long interstellar space missions by freezing characters in cryosleep. According to the ...

As of August 2024, more than 114,000 people are on the U.S. national transplant waiting list, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, and about 6,000 annually will die before ...