Lining up donor and recipient nerves for a potential brain transplant is one thing. Getting them to communicate is another.

One man could go under the knife to get a whole new body next year, if Dr. Canavero is to be believed, but there's plenty of reason to be skeptical. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on ...

The idea of taking two humans, putting them in nearby isolation chambers, and swapping their heads is a profoundly science-fiction idea – ditto the idea of taking a human brain, and implanting it in ...

When someone has a stroke—a leading worldwide cause of death and disability—time is of the essence. Almost nine out of 10 cases are ischemic strokes, caused by restricted blood flow in the brain, and ...

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, doctors in China transplanted a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead person. The recent experiment, described Monday (Aug. 25) in the journal ...