Many organs play important roles, but not all of them are required for survival. Some are removed because of injury, and ...

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

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

Meredith Smith chose to remove her brain-damaged husband from life support. She said Lifebanc wanted to keep him alive several days longer.

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 ...

The new "Obereg 2.0" is the latest iteration in a series of advanced Russian body armor concepts—most of which have never been distributed to the country's frontline infantry.

NASA’s AVATAR experiment uses organ chip models from astronauts to study bone marrow and immune response in microgravity and deep space radiation environments.

Healthy skin is often seen as a sign of overall well-being. While beauty trends frequently change, the foundation of good ...

Private companies are capitalizing on this quest for information. Grail’s Galleri blood test screens for more than 50 ...

Scientists wanted to know why the iconic triceratops had such an unusually large nose compared to most species on Earthj.

Your body is with you 24/7. But how often do you actually stop to think about what it’s doing? Probably not much, and ...

Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) guest scientist Jason Ross has been honored for his outstanding contributions to the German-French research project ActiDecorp. The project has an ambitious ...