Blood vessels grown in the lab in just five days could quickly prevent the tissue damage that can occur after an accident ...

These glow-in-the-dark axolotls can regrow lost limbs — and studying them could eventually help humans do the same.

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Scientists have successfully transplanted gene-edited pig kidneys, hearts, and now livers into the human body. © l i g h t p o e t via Shutterstock We’ve reached a ...

But we’ve learned quite a lot of fascinating things about the human body this year, too, in relation to topics ranging from eye and uterus transplants to vitamin D levels and aging. Here are a ...

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Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better understanding of the cells of the human body in health and disease ...

“An Estimation of the Number of Cells in the Human Body.” The authors–a team of scientists from Italy, Greece, and Spain–admit that they’re hardly the first people to tackle this questio ...

The work at George Mason’s body farm, formally known as the Forensic Science Research and Training Laboratory, started on May 28 when two donated human bodies were delivered and placed there ...

Human body lice can harbor plague-causing bacteria ... from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree in science journalism from Boston University. We are at a critical time ...