From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

No longer considered functionless, the “rediscovered” rete ovarii may be crucial for understanding “unexplainable” infertility and ovarian disorders.

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.

By mapping the subcellular architecture and protein interactions within cells, researchers can better understand how mutations contribute to pediatric cancers and other conditions.

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying ...

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 ...

What will be lost when medical students are no longer made to uncomfortably face death to learn from what a real human body ...

If a person’s body weight is too low ... and depression have links to inflammation and may change the immune system. Conversely, some research suggests that depression could be due to chronic ...

The animal liver produced bile and albumin — key indicators of liver function — and maintained a stable blood flow with no signs of immunological rejection ...

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 ...

Smoking can cause long-term negative effects on the body, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Smoking is dangerous to your health. It can harm nearly every organ in your body and ...

The operation used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being rejected by a human immune system.