Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

Wall St. Insights Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, ...

Did you know that we are still discovering completely new parts of the human body? In the last decade, we've uncovered ...

Things in Dr. Anthony Atala’s lab at Wake Forest University are not always what they seem. On one lab bench, surrounded by gutted printer cartridges, lie the inner workings of an inkjet printer. But ...

A collection of images taken with scanning electron microscopes (SEM) has been pieced together by London-based science author, Brandon Broll, into a book titled Microcosmos. The images cover anything ...

Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical ...

Have you ever felt like there was a pit in your stomach? What about a flutter in your heart? It turns out that the anatomical connections we make with certain emotions and feelings — what researchers ...

I visited a body farm and an anatomy lab to see what the process looks like at its best. Rebecca George doesn’t mind the vultures. They remind her of toddlers as they rustle their feathers in ...

“You’re glowing” is a well-known complimentary phrase meant to convey a perceived level of health, happiness, or other biological condition—pregnancies often inspire the platitude, for example. But in ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary "Body Brokers" in the video player above. Every year, an estimated 20,000 people donate their bodies to science for the purpose of medical research and education. But ...

Rather than a gradual transition, your life staggers and lurches through the rapid growth of childhood and the plateau of ...