But I liked understanding the nuts and bolts of how things work. So as an undergraduate at Duke University, I knew I wanted to study physics. The Human Genome Project had just come out, and I was ...

Every day, your body replaces billions of cells—and yet, your tissues stay perfectly organized. How is that possible?

Help Date Published: 06-12-2025 Publisher: The Woodtick Press Written in understandable language, this book describes the ways in which our body changes with age and outlines some practical ways to ...

Putting your weight into opening a door (say, with your shoulder) is easier than using your hands. Sliding heavy cardboard ...

The appendix is a worm-shaped tube attached to the large intestine in the human body. It is an organ that is credited with very little significance and often removed indiscriminately to avoid ...

Professor Levin directs both the Allen Discovery Center and the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University in Massachusetts. His lab is unusual for the field of biology, a ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China.

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

The artist has built a career treating anatomy as a canvas, as much as a subject.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine welcomes 49 students to its new Charlotte campus, where classes start July 14.

All diseases exist on a continuum, and the damage often begins early—sometimes as soon as a child is weaned off breast milk and starts consuming regular table food. In a previous blog, I discussed ...

Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management ...