At every moment, your kidneys are working hard to keep you alive and healthy. Shannon Horning/ SciTech Editor While you are drinking, running, sleeping, or simply breathing, two loyal organs at ...

Scientists at the University of North Texas report a breakthrough in building tiny, lab-grown replicas of human organs. These replicas, called organoids, can mimic some functions and structures of ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

We are living in an era of “discoveries that feel at once wondrous, improbable, and surreal,” writes Mary Roach in her new book.

Artificial tissues that mimic the placenta, endometrium, ovary and vagina could point to treatments for common conditions ...

Budding surgeons may soon train on stretchy, lifelike 3D-printed skin that oozes out blood and pus when cut.

Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with ...

We humans love putting things in boxes. Assigning simple categories makes us feel comfortable – but all too often, biology ...

In a mouse model of liver transplantation, UCLA researchers have identified proteins that act as "protective switches" ...

By studying what other creatures can already achieve, researchers hope to uncover breakthroughs in human medicine and turn ...

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine recently joined a nationwide NIH-funded initiative to create the first comprehensive digital map of the healthy human body.