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 ...

An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises ...

When the human body gets hurt, most tissues heal—skin closes over a wound, bone heals itself. But not all organs heal that ...

Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts. Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts.

The future of life-saving treatments may be just a chip off the ‘ole blood sample. Scientists at Columbia University have created a set of real — and really tiny — human organs that interact on a chip ...