Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

The process of dying usually begins with the failure of one or more of the three vital organs. The process of dying usually begins with the failure of one or more of the three vital organs: the heart, ...

Wearing blue rubber gloves, Molly Dobrow reached into a metal vat of diluted sodium hydroxide and pulled out two dripping-wet models of human organs: a heart and a set of lungs. Made of Elastico, a ...

Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. By Ted Alcorn On some level, the human liver in the operating room ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale ...