The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar’s Shan people enter monastic life for up ...

Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand before having their heads ...

For 10 days, the liver performed its basic metabolic functions in a patient diagnosed with brain death, according to a team of doctors led by Kai-Shan Tao, Zhao-Xu Yang, Xuan Zhang, and Hong-Tao Zhang ...

The experimental procedure was conducted by a multidisciplinary medical team from the Fourth Military Medical University in China, under the supervision of Kai-Shan Tao, Zhao-Xu Yang, Xuan Zhang ...

More information: Kai-Shan Tao et al, Gene-modified pig-to-human liver xenotransplantation, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08799-1 ...

Young ethnic Shan boys wearing shimmering dresses and colourful floral headpieces take part in a traditional rite of passage ceremony to be initiated as novice Buddhist monks at the Wat Ku Tao ...

The Buddhist celebration is unique to the Shan people of northeastern Myanmar ... they were carried around the Ku Tao temple in Chiang Mai three times on relatives' shoulders, to the rhythmic ...