One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

"Human evolution has occurred both due to, and in spite of, the placenta. Every pregnancy, unthinkingly, must navigate a ...

Deprived of oxygen, the body’s organs and cells begin to break down, with certain tissues dying off faster than others.

A new study identified the tiny pollutants in the olfactory bulbs of eight cadavers, suggesting microplastics can travel ...

Different cell types have varying survival times. For example, in humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after ...

But these aren’t the viruses you fear. Some of them are your body’s secret protectors, keeping deadly bacteria in check and ...

It was a steely, dogged organ. Full of grit. It lived only to serve. It gave up its life within minutes of your birth, ...

Making the decision to donate your organ or body can be fulfillingFact checked by James LacyFact checked by James LacyOrgan ...

Scientists in Brazil have found more evidence of microplastics infiltrating the human body. While it has been previously ...

Dr. Xavier Aldana Reyes goes one further, defining the genre as “the inscription of horror onto the human body by virtue of a change.” Whether or not we invite that change is another matter — but the ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary mechanism of cell division in Corynebacterium matruchotii, one of the most common bacteria living in dental plaque. The filamentous bacterium doesn't just ...