An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

In no other organ in the body do you find large fluid filled spaces around the principal cells. Neurons in the brain are surrounded by supporting cells. The cells in the muscles of the heart are close ...

If you want to attract attention to the problems of health disparities along racial and ethnic lines, take a page from Michelle Goodwin. In fact take her title page: Goodwin's provocatively ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

As people age, the liver is among several organs that experience chronic, low-grade inflammation, a state that keeps the ...

The skin accounts for about 15 percent of your body weight, says Barry Goldman, MD, a New York-based private dermatologist affiliated with Cornell Medical Center. It also serves multiple purposes. “It ...

Although our brain takes up just 2% of our total body weight, this organ consumes between 20% and 25% of our resting energy budget. The human brain costs something like 420 calories a day to run ...

EMBL Hamburg and CSSB scientists have uncovered the molecular details of how we absorb vitamin B1, paving the way to ...

ROBERTSON COUNTY, Ky. (WKRC) - One woman is dead and another woman is in jail in Northern Kentucky. Kentucky State Police were called to a home on Brierly Ridge Road Wednesday afternoon for a report ...

Surgeons have just connected a pig's kidney to a human body. The clamps have been released and human blood is now flowing into the pig organ. "You could have heard a pin drop," says transplant ...

This first successful treatment of tumors with radioactive ion beams could one day lead to treating human patients’ tumors with millimeter precision.

Executive summaryScientists are constantly trying to improve the use and efficiency of models in research. As such, they are ...