Scientists have discovered that human stomach cells can be genetically reprogrammed to act like pancreatic beta cells and produce insulin. This approach could one day help people with Type 1 diabetes ...

For years, doctors have relied on familiar vital signs—heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and oxygen levels—to monitor someone's health. But researchers at the University of Missouri believe one ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a pioneering method to mend damaged hearts without open-heart surgery, an advance that could one day transform ...

Could an assembled body ever breathe, bleed or think? When Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, anatomy was a science on the ...

A new 3D human brain tissue platform developed by MIT researchers is the first to integrate all major brain cell types, ...

Look around. You see buildings, concrete, trees, shrubs, people, pets, and more. Our eyes — fitted with lenses that filter ...

Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

It’s not personal if the nurse isn’t using the thinnest needle on you. Find out why certain needle thicknesses are needed and ...

The slime coating frog bodies could hold the key to fighting infections, healings wounds and even curing cancer ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

The Tulsa exhibit, created in partnership with OSU Medicine, helps children understand their bodies and see the possibilities ...