Simply put, the National Museum of Health and Medicine offers macabre and magic all at once — perfect for an autumn night. Located near Washington DC, with its sleek modernist exterior and the world’s ...

The study, published 20 November in Nature, is part of the international Human Cell Atlas (HCA) initiative to map every cell type in the human body ... the organ's basic structure and function ...

Regardless of age, certain health conditions, such as heart and lung disease, obesity, asthma, diabetes and kidney disease, ...

They then add cells to the scaffold, called recellularization, and repopulate it to make a functional living organ. “[The cells] naturally … migrate to their ... and create a human tissue,” he said.

It’s not just the plastic itself that is wreaking havoc on the human body ... of glands and organs that produce and release hormones which control many of our body’s basic functions, such ...

Regrowing a missing limb is no big deal for creatures that are well-known for their regenerative "superpowers ... These approaches allow scientists to study human organs during health and disease ...

With just the tip of her finger, Charlotte Coughlin sliced through the cadaver’s abdomen, revealing his liver, kidneys and ...

The concept of cellular or “body memory” suggests that individual cells might store information beyond their basic functions ... of organ transplantation and the human experience that comes ...

Four people who received pig organs died within two months of transplant. Now an Alabama woman hopes for a better outcome.