An 11-year-old girl in Fort Collins successfully became the 37th child in U.S. history to undergo a liver and heart transplant at one time. Gracie Greenlaw is now home and thriving after receiving the ...

Following the death of Catherine O'Hara, searches for situs inversus, a rare congenital condition the actress was diagnosed ...

Did you know there are 7 organs in your body that you can live without? Most people know about the appendix, but what are the rest? Join Hank Green for a peek into the human body with this fun new ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their ...

Most days, our bodies are just there—mundane vessels we inhabit on autopilot. We wake up, get on with our routines, eat, sleep, repeat. But the moment you actually stop and think about what’s ...

It’s estimated that around 80% of the world’s population has black hair and brown eyes. These features are just as beautiful ...

A major winter storm is expected to plow across the country this weekend, delivering a dangerous combination of freezing rain ...

Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help. A new study by the Max ...

The heart and kidneys appear to have little in common—except when they go wrong. Between 40 and 50 percent of people with heart failure also suffer from chronic kidney disease (CKD). Cardiovascular ...

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.

Resurrection beyond cellular disintegration is simply impossible. However, when a person dies, cell death itself isn’t instant. Researchers are taking advantage of a timed window during which they can ...

A man from Chicago's West Side continues to beat the odds despite being born with a rare condition in which his organs were outside his body. Cases of the genetic condition keep increasing across the ...