On the morning of March 10, 2024, in an operating room in Xi’an, China, surgeons connected a living human body to a gene-edited pig liver. A brain-dead patient, with his family’s consent, became the ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

But will these “bodyoids” ever be ethically acceptable? This week, MIT Technology Review published a piece on bodyoids—living bodies that cannot think or feel pain. In the piece, a trio of experts ...