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 ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

The development and eventual approval of modern drugs is hugely reliant on animal models and human clinical trials, but for some time now scientists have been working on an alternative and more ...

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 ...

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When it’s time to bring new life into the world, the human body transforms itself in remarkable ways. The immune system, which usually fights off anything that reads as foreign, learns to chill out so ...

Following is a transcript of this video; note that errors are possible: Rohin Francis, MBBS: Yes, today we're ranking organs. I have got a day off and, as you can probably tell from my eyes, I stayed ...

Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have created the world's most sophisticated lab model of the human body, developing a full system of miniaturized organs known as ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature Aging investigated the genetic architecture of artificial intelligence (AI)-derived biological age gaps (BAGs) for multiple organ systems and their links ...

Editor’s note: In the months since this article first published in the March/April issue of Popular Mechanics, there have been a series of ground-breaking updates in the field of organ transplantation ...