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 ...

Amazing Facts About the Human Body: You may feel comfortable in yourself, but how much do you actually know about your body?

Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team ...

Psychiatric drugs meant for humans have been tested on mice for years. The two species’ brains have similar cellular structures. But a new study by the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The CORPUS museum takes interactive study of the human body to a totally different level. Here's where you have to head to ...

Chimpanzees, along with bonobos, are humans' closest living relatives. In fact, you may have heard that humans and chimps share 98.8% of their DNA. But is this actually true? And what does "similar ...