In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers examined the relationship between cell size and count across the human body, establishing a quantitative framework and uncovering ...

Researchers recently developed a bone marrow model to study how the body generates cells. Interestingly, this model is the ...

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms ...

Your Blood Vessels Could Circle Earth Four Times Laid end to end, an adult's blood vessels could circle Earth's equator four ...

In the 16th century, the Belgian cartographer Abraham Ortelius created the world’s first modern atlas — a collection of maps that he called “The Theater of the World.” The maps, drawn by Ortelius and ...

Biomedical researchers at Texas A&M University may have discovered a way to stop or even reverse the decline of cellular ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

The human body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells of diverse shapes and sizes, all working together to keep you alive. The smallest of these cells, like platelets and red blood ...

Researchers have recreated a miniature human bone marrow system that mirrors the real structure found inside our bones. The ...

Many aspects of our world, from the body mass of creatures in the animal kingdom to the population of cities across the globe, follow an intriguing mathematical pattern. Known as Zipf's law, the rule ...