Researchers have developed a smartphone app that uses machine learning to accurately determine body composition—which is ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

Commercial interest in the technology is not surprising. Last year, China announced that so-called bio digital twins would be ...

When you hop, run or jump, your legs behave like springs, absorbing and returning energy with each step. But what happens to ...

Dissecting cadavers is a mainstay of medical education, but it relies on donors and poses ethical and other challenges. Roshni Shastri and Crispin Wiles argue that modern teaching has moved on, but ...

From growth charts to anemia thresholds, clinical standards assume a single human prototype. Why are we still using ...

A first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)-based neural network can rapidly analyze and interpret millions of cells from a patient sample, predicting molecular changes in the tissue.

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

The study, which was published in the journal Pharmacological Reports, analyzed the impact of four terpenes that are found in ...

This isn't like some low-gravity version of "The Terminal," in which travelers are stuck in limbo due to some administrative glitch. Space can have devastating and profound health effects on ...

By combining ultrasound, photoacoustics, and imaging, Richard Lopata brings medical technologies from concept to clinical ...