Researchers preparing to scan a human heart from a donor. (ESRF/Stef Candé) A pioneering project has revealed the human body ...

Human babies arrive with 100 extra bones for the same reason birth is the most dangerous event in mammalian life. Both facts ...

A new imaging breakthrough combines ultrasound and light-based techniques to generate vivid 3D images that show both tissue structure and blood vessel activity. Developed by researchers at Caltech and ...

Illustration of a human body anatomy and internal organs. Each figure drawing is on a different layer. It’s probably not so much that pathologies themselves have changed that much during the last few ...

The human body is often described as a marvel of “perfect design”: elegant, efficient and finely tuned for its purpose. Yet, when we look closer, a rather different picture emerges. Far from being a ...

There are a few body parts that remain the same size from the moment we're born until the end of our lives. The human body is an incredible structure of balance, precision, and evolution. While most ...