Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

The human body is a wonderful biological work of art, composed of a great many organs, each carrying out special functions that are part of life and well-being. Though the human body contains about 78 ...

Does the human body contain any truly useless parts? Arguably, yes — but they might not be the ones you assume. Some body parts, like the male nipple, arguably serve no useful function. But others, ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...

While we share bones, joints, and internal plumbing with the rest of the animal kingdom, one tiny facial feature is uniquely ...

Resurrection beyond cellular disintegration is simply impossible. However, when a person dies, cell death itself isn’t instant. Researchers are taking advantage of a timed window during which they can ...

Scientists have created a set of real -- and really tiny -- human organs on a chip, both genetically and physically linked like the human body. Columbia Engineering / SWNS The future of life-saving ...

I've done about 15 actual human body dissections as part of my ongoing professional training as an anatomist. You can become a bit desensitised to it, although people ask, "How do you put up with the ...

BOSTON - The theft from Harvard Medical School's morgue is now raising a number of ethical and legal questions. It is also causing concern in the area of organ donation, which is life-saving and very ...