An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

The human body’s nervous system is complex. Consisting of the brain, spinal cord and sensory organs, the nervous system acts as the communicator of the body, receiving information, deciding what ...

We all know there's a heart in the body; we've been reading about it since childhood. As long as it beats, humans live. Let's ...

An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does ...

Death is not a singular moment, but rather a process that marks the body's transition from life to the unknown. While the image of death is often portrayed as sudden, especially in cases of cardiac ...

The body's tissues can get injured in many ways, but while some injuries heal perfectly, others don't heal at all. A cut in ...

Scientists temporarily attached a pig’s kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.Pigs have ...