This article was originally republished from The Conversation. Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both ...

Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both strong contributors to today’s skyrocketing healthcare costs and ...

In a lab at Rice University in Houston, a tiny 3D-printed model works like a part of a human lung: When air is pumped into the model, red blood cells take up oxygen as they flow through 3D-printed ...

The synovium is a membrane-like structure that lines the knee joint and helps to keep the joint happy and healthy, mainly by producing and maintaining synovial fluid. Inflammation of this tissue is ...

During the past ten years, scientists who study how the human body develops and functions on the most basic level have enjoyed a renaissance of sorts, thanks to structures called organoids–tiny 3D ...

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure had already been charted. Yet recent research suggests that even in the ...

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 ...