Science news this week ... anatomist Robert Wiedersheim published a list of 86 human "vestiges," or body parts that had "lost their original physiological significance" to humans.

These approaches allow scientists to study human organs during health and disease ... Miniature, 3D versions of testicles also make it to the list of body parts that scientists have grown in ...

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Ultraweak biophotons largely caused by metabolic processes could play a key role in noninvasive health testing.

What once sounded like science fiction — growing human body parts in labs — is fast becoming scientific fact. Using stem cells, bioprinting, and artificial intelligence, researchers are ...

In a new study published in iScience, researchers catalogued words for body parts and emotions used by ... when looking into an animal or a human body.” Today, it’s difficult to parse where ...

Sadly, however, the business of selling human remains ... is not accused of selling body parts for science; he allegedly was part of a ghoulish black market of curio collectors and crafts artists.

But for my grandparents, the question of what would happen to their bodies was easy: They would be donated to science ... illegally stealing and selling body parts, and later pleaded guilty.

The human body also regenerates ... For example, annelids such as Platynereis dumerilii can regenerate entire parts of their posterior body after injury. The molecular mechanisms that control ...