For most of human history, the skull has had one obvious job: protect the brain. A new study suggests it may also have another role: researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Basic techniques for observing the microscopic structure of the human body —Histology is the study of understanding the human ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...

Despite centuries of study, scientists are still finding new details and even overlooked structures within the human body. As researchers explore anatomical differences between individuals, it’s ...

We are gathered here today to celebrate the life of an organ that passed very quietly from this world on the day that you were born, the placenta. Also called the afterbirth, it's the human body's ...

Human brain is actually two separate organs, scientists find - The Stanford University breakthrough stands to open new doors for research into fatal neurodegenerative diseases ...

Stanford Scientists Find That the Human Brain Is Actually Two Separate Organs A team led by scientists at Stanford University ...

Miniature organs have a new lifeline. Mimicking the way early human embryos grow blood vessels, scientists nudged multiple types of mini organs to sprout their own vascular networks. Also called ...

Although organs broadly age at different times and at different rates, your body undergoes rapid “biphasic” aging in your ...

To understand how bodies work, medical researchers and scientists have created mini models of organs, called organoids. This field of scientific research has had profound impacts on biological ...

Researchers are using organoids to unlock one of the human body’s most mysterious—and miraculous—processes. In the center of the laboratory dish, there was a subtle white film that could only be seen ...