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

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Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...

With just the tip of her finger, Charlotte Coughlin sliced through the cadaver’s abdomen, revealing his liver, kidneys and stomach. From there, the senior at Lincoln Northwest High School had the ...

Contrast agents are often used in diagnostic technologies like MRIs. There are many different types of contrast agents, which can make tissues much easier to see against the background fluids of the ...

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples collected eight years prior, according to a new study. Overall, cadaver ...