It was 1974, and as a student in Alpena Community College’s nursing program, every spare hour was spent studying. I was completely immersed in the complexities of the human body and the incredible way ...

Influenza is a highly contagious viral infection that affects the respiratory system. Although often dismissed as a seasonal ...

Sterling High School students are using a tool of technology to peel back the layers of the human body for an up close and intimate view of human anatomy. An anatomage table is an interactive virtual ...

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

By analyzing the brains of 52 dead patients, scientists were able to visualize how microplastics amass inside us ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

In a study being published today in Cell, the scientists present a method that can simultaneously identify, through testing a stool sample, all the proteins in the intestine – including those from ...

outline their discovery of a specific type of regulatory T cell that can home back into the thymus and repair the organ when it's damaged. Between the lungs and in front of the heart sits a small ...

I find it truly exciting that by using this system, we are now able to emulate some of the most essential ... but struggled ...

The human body is composed of over 37 trillion cells, each with a limited lifespan. These cells are continuously replaced to maintain organ and system function. Yet over time, or as a result of damage ...