A research team led by Félix Viana, co-director of the Sensory Transduction and Nociception laboratory at the Institute for ...

Behind the festive comedy lies a catalogue of head trauma, spinal injuries and burns that few humans could survive.

New research has mapped the cell types that specialize to form reproductive organs in both sexes, identifying key genes and ...

Overcoming acquired treatment resistance is one of the major challenges in the fight against cancer. While combination ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms Students learn anatomy from an Asclepius AI Table, which merges ...

At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed themselves the first real optimism in decades. At an international conference, ...

You may not be able to grow bigger muscles out of thin air, but you can 3D print them in microgravity, scientists at ETH Zurich have now established. "3D printing" refers to a type of manufacturing ...

The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

Background: Traditional cadaveric dissection is considered the gold standard in anatomical education; however, its accessibility is limited by ethical, logistical, and financial constraints. Recent ...

Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help. A new study by the Max ...