Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

Skin is the body's largest organ and, along with hair, nails, and skin-associated nerves and glands, is part of the integumentary system, according to the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This ...

Many health care providers will tell you that of all the courses they took in school, gross anatomy was, by far, the most meaningful. Now, advanced technologies are making that experience even richer.

An adult human body is thought to consist of more than 37trn cells, of more than 5,000 distinct types. Surprisingly little is known about some of these fundamental biological building blocks. Through ...

A TikTok video by a human anatomy institution explaining how organs move around during pregnancy has been watched over 8 million times by interested social media users. The video was posted by the ...

AN ADULT HUMAN body consists of some 37trn cells. Not so long ago, these were thought to come in 220 different types. That number, the product of painstaking decades spent peering through microscopes ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — From the head to the bone, you will find yourself in awe while exploring human anatomy at Bodies Human, a museum that recently opened in Panama City Beach and features more than ...

20 years of research finds evidence of vascular-associated, naturally pluripotent stem cells in the adult body (vaPS cells) with encouraging potential for regenerative medicine HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE ...

RICHMOND, Va. — "BODY WORLDS: The Anatomy of Happiness," which is now open at the Science Museum of Virginia, explores how contentment impacts the human body. "Happiness is not just mental health.