Ochsner Health and STEM NOLA are joining forces for an educational event focused on the heart and circulatory system, ...

In the piece, a trio of experts argue that advances in biotechnology will soon allow us to create “spare” human bodies that could be used for research, or to provide organs for donation.

At the same time, we know much can be gained from studying the human body. We learn much from the bodies of the dead, which these days are used for teaching and research only with consent.

AI engineers have developed the world’s first ‘digital nervous system’, allowing robots to ... that enables any machine to learn like a human or animal – to solve new problems as they ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...

Microgravity affects various aspects of the human body. According to NASA, microgravity leads to changes in fluid distribution, muscle loading, and altered signalling pathways. Some basic changes ...

The human heart, brain and circulatory system are also affected due to a prolonged stay in space. In microgravity, fluids from the rest of the body tend to shift upward toward the head.

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity ... Microgravity also distorts the vestibular system, which is how you balance and sense which way is up. In space, there is no up ...

Even so, he was still around two months short of the record for the longest ever spaceflight by a human ... to the body's response to DNA damage, bone formation and the immune system's response ...

The circulatory system consists of one heart, five liters of blood, and approximately 96,000 kilometers of blood vessels, responsible for transporting nutrients and waste throughout the body.