Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine recently joined a nationwide NIH-funded initiative to create the first ...

"We already know that practices such as physical exercise, a balanced diet, and pharmacological treatments contribute ...

Researchers analyzed 62 scientific studies and found that microplastics can harm bones in several ways. These tiny plastic ...

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

A recent scientific breakthrough has seen lab-grown kidneys successfully functioning in a human trial. This promising ...

A computer-generated image of red blood cells. Nitric oxide—known by the formula NO—is so vital for humans’ internal physiological processes that it was crowned Molecule of the Year in 1992. It plays ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the development of CRISPR/Cas9, a method also known as "gene scissors," ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a brain-dead man’s body is functioning well more than 4 weeks later.

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 ...

The human body is a wonderous thing, especially when you consider how intricate and efficient each bodily system is. For instance, an adult’s blood vessels could encircle the earth 2.5 times if ...