The pelvic region holds major organs under its layers of muscles. Some of the most important include the major digestive organs, the intestines. The small intestine is the longest part of the ...

Bones and Organs At the height of the cavity is the liver, the body’s largest organ. It acts like a filtration system. It rids the body of toxins and produces bile, which aids in the digestion and ...

Scientists report on their identification of a previously undetected, but widespread, structural feature in the human body that could play a key role in how tissues and organs function, and also ...

To work toward getting around this issue, researchers used parabolic flights to simulate microgravity conditions, then 3D ...

The study of human anatomy reaches back thousands of years, to the Romans and Greeks. Herophilus, the Greek anatomist, is considered the first to take a scalpel to skin to see how our bodies work.

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

Back in 2012, DARPA wanted to create a version of the human body that could be put onto a series of chips: a collection of 10 separate organs connected with blood vessel-type structures and regulated ...

Just when you thought we knew all there was to know about the human body, researchers just discovered an entirely new human organ. Called the interstitium, it consists of a series of fluid-filled, ...