Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the ...

Scientists have launched the Human Organ Atlas (HOA), a new open-access 3D portal offering high-resolution imaging of intact human organs. Using advanced synchrotron imaging (non-destructive imaging), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Miniature organs have a new lifeline. Mimicking the way early human embryos grow blood vessels, scientists nudged multiple types of mini organs to sprout their own vascular networks. Also called ...

Scientists from NYU Langone Health and NYU School of Medicine have discovered a previously unknown feature of human anatomy. This is called the the interstitium, and it is found in numerous places, ...