The way to solve a myriad of medical challenges, such as a chronic shortage of donated organs, is through the creation of ...

Whether farmed for meat or used as subjects in medical research, animals are deeply sentient beings, whose suffering remains ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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