T he heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Learn all about the human body's many systems and some of its individual organs, both vital and vestigial.

A self-described “human blood artist” from Pennsylvania has been sentenced to two years of probation in connection with the peddling of body parts from Harvard University and an Arkansas mortuary.

In recent years, scientists have successfully grown a range of miniature organs and human body parts in the lab.

The five vital organs in the human body are the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver. Other organs include the gallbladder, pancreas, and stomach. Organ systems, such as the nervous system ...

Among the most impressive systems of the body is the musculoskeletal system. But how many muscles are in the human body?

Some human body parts have become useless over the past few million years. These include wisdom teeth, the tail bone, and the muscle fibers that produce goose bumps. Take a look at nine body parts ...

A Minnesota tattoo artist and human remains aficionado was sentenced to 15 months in prison for adding the stolen corpse of a stillborn baby boy to his collection, among other smuggled body parts ...

Your Body, the First 5 Minutes After You Die Clinical death is not the end for all mechanisms in the human body. Some parts keep firing shortly after we die.

Dissected human remains — including heads, brains, skin and bones — were stolen from a morgue at Harvard Medical School in Boston, the indictment alleges.

The FBI executed a search warrant on Scott’s Little Rock home on July 13, 2022 and found numerous stolen body parts in boxes and trash bags, including a human brain, heart, skullcap, kidneys ...