GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Eight minutes is all it takes for a new patient to be put on the national organ transplant list. In that same amount of time 17 people will die waiting for an organ ...

In a significant step forward for tissue engineering, scientists are employing the microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to create human liver tissue with superior ...

Organ donation saves lives and enjoys widespread public support. But many people are unsure what they agree to when they sign up. Credit...Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times Supported by By Trinity ...

Researching are throwing lots of ideas at the wall to see what sticks, but the U.S. just put some serious cash behind the ...

When people sign up to be organ donors, they often think about hearts, lungs and kidneys. But there’s another part of that decision that can quietly change — and even save — many more lives: tissue ...

It is a cold, hard fact that 22 people die unnecessarily every day in the United States waiting for an organ transplant. A great deal of the problem rests in the public’s misconceptions about how to ...

Donor Alliance, the federally designated organ procurement organization serving Colorado and Wyoming, has unveiled a fully modernized version of its long-standing Transplantation Science curriculum.

Automated donor referrals help improve patient care and optimize hospital resources "This integration is a prime example of how health systems can talk to one another, which helps eliminate manual ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MAYWOOD, Ill. – An event held Sunday at ...

Across the United States, the brutal math of organ failure has barely budged for decades: demand keeps rising while supply stays painfully finite. Now a wave of 3D bioprinting breakthroughs is turning ...