Scientists are repurposing this once non-essential organ to grow life-saving tissues on demand and from inside the body. The idea of using the body’s own organs as mini bioreactors to grow replacement ...

Heart to the left. Liver to the right. That's where you'll find these organs in a healthy human body, but surprisingly, in some people, the heart is on the right and the liver on the left. This normal ...

Researchers have uncovered that the body uses different molecular systems to sense cold in the skin versus internal organs. This explains why surface chills feel very different from cold experienced ...

Some discoveries change the way we view the human body. In 2021, researchers described what they saw when they had examined skin-biopsy samples that included tattoos: The ink particles had traveled ...

Our bodies are constantly breaking down. Over time, their built-in repair mechanisms also fail. Knee cartilage grinds away. Hip joints no longer support weight. Treatments for breast cancer and other ...

Scientists have uncovered a powerful genetic switch that helps some of the body’s most important immune cells grow up properly and keep our organs healthy. The switch, called MafB, guides immature ...

June 12, 2025 -- Over 100,000 Americans are waiting for life-saving kidney transplants, with 17 dying each day. Why isn’t universal donation enough? Could xenotransplantation – transplanting ...

The age printed on a birth certificate tells only part of the story. Inside the body, the lungs, kidneys, pancreas, brain, ...

You might celebrate one birthday each year, but inside your body, different organs are marching to their own biological drums. That number on your driver’s license? It’s just a rough average that ...