Behold, the human brain: Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and ...

The ribs and rib cage are excellent examples of the human body’s multifaceted and multifunctional design. They are strong enough to support the skeleton and protect the vital organs in the chest ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

How Sugar Affects Individual Organs Although researchers in India used mice while studying the effects of sugary beverages on the body, their methods closely mimic how we consume sweet drinks and ...

The shortage of organ donors is not just confined to ... difficult process. While some parts of the human body are more complex than others, each piece has its own specialised requirements and ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

But in early April, her body ‒ which had tolerated the kidney longer than any human had ... Looney's transplant was part of a larger effort to provide genetically engineered pig organs to ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology is not capable of observing body tissues at the scale of ...

To make the organ more compatible with the human body, scientists made six gene edits ... Shah has been a part of the team at Mass General Brigham that successfully transplanted a pig kidney ...