A study identified a turning point at which that acceleration typically occurs: around age 50. After this time, the ...

A new study found a correlation between the health of a human’s thymus and the likelihood of cardiovascular disease or cancer.  Published on Wednesday in the ...

The health of this small organ, which was previously thought to be inactive in adulthood, can be crucial in cancer treatment ...

Is it possible to draw conclusions about an adult's physical condition on the basis of their age? The answer is: "It depends.

Scientists can now do research on live human organs without petri dishes or animal testing.

The human body is still a mystery, and some organs have largely been considered useless in one way or another. However, the ...

MDI Bio Lab scientists discover how the fish solves a basic challenge in regenerative biology-insights in their newest publication in the journal Development could one day guide human repair.

Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that.

In A Nutshell Researchers have launched a free, publicly accessible 3D atlas of real human organs that lets anyone zoom from whole-organ views down to near-cellular detail in a web browser. The scans ...

Scientists have uncovered surprising complexity in a tiny sensory structure found in comb jellies, some of the oldest animals on Earth.

The appendix has independently evolved at least 32 times across 361 mammalian species. What makes it an evolutionary darling ...

A 56-year-old man with liver failure has become the first living person to be surgically connected to a genetically modified ...