For more than a century, scientists have wondered: If it’s so hard for anything to get into the brain, how does waste get out? The brain has one of the highest metabolisms of any organ in the body ...

There is growing concern that plastics may also be responsible for significant harm to the earth’s environment and human ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

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 ...

Kidney failure affects millions worldwide, and the number keeps rising. Each year, the global population of patients with end ...

We all know that we age as time goes by, what may come as a surprise is that according to new studies, each of our organs seems to age at a different rate. For example, we may have a young brain ...

As part of the program, organ recipients, donors, donor families and individuals on the waitlist learn about more donation and share their stories, as well as talking about how the system works ...

Perhaps fans noticed something else: Any organ music has been pre-programmed and isn't coming from a live organist. That was actually true in 2024, as well. The organ was removed from the ...

For most mountaineers, some level of altitude sickness is inevitable. But Indigenous highlanders living on the Tibetan Plateau, known as Sherpas, have inhabited the high Himalaya long enough to ...

Despite the introduction of legislation aimed at increasing the rate of organ donation, families are increasingly refusing to donate their relative's organs – often because they're not clear ...