Tag Archives: organs

Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts.  Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts. Literally. “Here’s the astonishing truth: For many of these internal components, a truly functional existence is not just possible, but often surprisingly robust,” Dr. Indraneil Mukherjee, …

A man almost died after overdosing on weight loss drugs in an apparent suicide attempt, with doctors warning how these medications could trigger mental health conditions.  The unnamed 67-year-old man from Israel had been prescribed semaglutide to treat his type 2 diabetes and also to help him lose weight.  However, after self-injecting 1-mg of semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, …

Researchers have just identified four new species of tarantulas whose genitals are so long they had to make a new biological classification for them. Meet the Satyrex ferox, S. arabicus, S. somalicus, and S. speciosus. They hail from the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa and are so different from their closest relatives—on both the morphological and molecular level—that …

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be. That’s just the way it is, but did you know that not all of you is aging at the same rate? New research has shown that, in fact, some of our organs age much faster than others, opening new frontiers for understanding, tracking, and potentially intervening the …

Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. Aging has always been tied hand in hand with the passage of time: a slow and steady process. A little less energy here, a few more wrinkles there. But a massive new study suggests that aging isn’t actually linear. It accelerates dramatically around age 50, with the body’s organs veering into decline at sharply different speeds. The …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two university hospitals are pioneering new ways to expand lifesaving heart transplants for adults and babies — advances that could help recover would-be heart donations that too often go unused. The new research aims to overcome barriers for using organs from someone who dies when their heart stops. Called DCD, or donation after circulatory death, it involves …