From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms ...

For more than a century, medical students have memorized the same map of the human body, confident that every major structure ...

A new technology may allow patients to recover vision for conditions that were previously thought irreversible ...

Pain is a constant, complex companion that clinicians often struggle to understand and measure for people living with sickle ...

The race to understand the brain has just crossed a threshold that once belonged to science fiction. Using one of the world’s ...

White matter gets its color from myelin, a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers (axons). This insulation speeds up the ...

Before we pinpoint the "arrow's" target, let's establish a foundational understanding of the heart's major components. The ...

Then David, who leads the Factor XI clinical program at Regeneron, will present preclinical data as well as clinical data from the ROXI-VTE-I and II studies in venous thromboembolism prevention post ...

Researchers found that rabies virus uses a shape-shifting protein to hijack RNA and control vital cell functions. Viruses are astonishingly efficient, able to take over our cells and control essential ...

A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

At this stage, known as gastrulation, a flat and featureless sheet of cells folds into a living blueprint for the body, a ...