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

The human body is a wonderful biological work of art, composed of a great many organs, each carrying out special functions that are part of life and well-being. Though the human body contains about 78 ...

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

Dr. Jeffrey Laitman joins WIRED to break down how our organs and body parts age from head to toe. From hearing and hair loss to sagging skin and deteriorating joints, Dr. Laitman highlights the impact ...

As a kid of the 1970s, Mary Roach sat in front of the TV watching “The Six Million Dollar Man” promise a techno-rebirth. “We can rebuild him,” the narrator intoned. “Better than he was before. Better.

NEW YORK – In an experimental procedure, a genetically modified pig kidney successfully functioned in a human body for about two months, the longest documented case of its kind. Researchers at NYU ...

BOSTON - The theft from Harvard Medical School's morgue is now raising a number of ethical and legal questions. It is also causing concern in the area of organ donation, which is life-saving and very ...