What are called autoimmune diseases can affect just about every part of the body — and tens of millions of people. While most ...

Every second, trillions of tiny parcels travel through your bloodstream—carrying vital information between your body's cells. Now, scientists at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute have opened this ...

Bloomfield resident Clayton Hanmer’s new book, The Gland Factory: A Tour of Your Body’s Goops, Juices, and Hormones, aims to ...

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We may have found a new organ, thanks to Cancer therapy! Join us as Hank Green explains these new human body discoveries, ...

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

"Since I was a kid, I would sleep-walk, drink, and eat. The sleep-drinking was the most problematic, because I've woken up ...

The successful treatment in a brain-dead man could be used in living people, to prevent the immune system attacking donor organs.

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A newly discovered line of communication between body muscle and the pituitary gland may play an unexpected role in female fertility, according to a new study. McGill University researchers found that ...