Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She ...

A group of Live Oak High School seniors Friday afternoon took a scalpel and peeled back the skin of cadaver Victor to display ...

An important part of students’ medical education at Baylor College of Medicine comes through the anatomy lab, where they receive training during their first months as students. Read more about how the ...

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 ...

Veins are a type of blood vessel that return deoxygenated blood from your organs back to your heart. These are different from your arteries, which deliver oxygenated blood from your heart to the rest ...

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.

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.

Each year, students with a passion to learn more about the human body can join the advanced human anatomy dissection team. The members of the dissection team meet each Friday to dissect human cadavers ...

In 1895, when the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered mysterious rays that could pass through muscles, tendons and skin, he trained these invisible beams of light onto his wife’s fingers and ...

A team of University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers have identified a pathway to help the human body defend itself ...