Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” grown from human cells. R3 Bio, a billionaire-backed biotech startup, is ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...

A human stem-cell model recreates early yolk sac immune development and shows that a single progenitor population can ...

For generations, medical students were taught that the map of the human body was essentially complete. Yet cancer imaging has now exposed a hidden structure in the head and neck that behaves like a ...

Over one billion people worldwide are over 60, and the population is projected to more than double by 2050. But as more people live into their 60s, 70s, and 80s, health care systems across the globe ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging, a team of researchers used a large dataset consisting of participants of European ancestry from the United Kingdom (U.K.) Biobank to explore ...

Help students develop their understanding of the human body and major organ systems with this engaging, printable KS3 Biology worksheet. This resource introduces students to the key organs and ...

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic ...

Hesperos has demonstrated the first digital twin of a human disease using a multi-organ Human-on-a-Chip platform. The system successfully modeled the full lifecycle of the malaria-causing P.

An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced, in Science Advances, the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users to explore intact human organs in unprecedented ...