The story of medicine in Pittsburgh has included huge chapters on the growth of transplant surgery. Livers, hearts, kidneys and lungs — all of these are the critical organs people need to survive.

Hidden inside every organ, microscopic fibers form a scaffolding that quietly shapes how we move, think, and heal. For the first time, scientists have produced detailed maps of these fiber webs across ...

Histology is one of the foundations of modern diagnostics. When physicians want to determine whether tissue is pathologically ...

Can you save the life of someone you’ve never met? Tissue donation can dramatically improve or even save the lives of others. While organ donation often receives more attention, eye and tissue ...

Fibrosis of the lungs is often a silent disease until it's too late. By the time patients are diagnosed, the scarring of their lung tissue is already advanced, and current treatments offer little more ...