New research based on the findings, published in several papers Wednesday in Nature and its sister journals, represents a “leap in understanding of the human body,” according to the Human Cell ...

Researchers with the global Human Cell Atlas (HCA) consortium report significant progress in their quest for a better understanding of the cells of the human body in health and disease, with the ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 ...

The easiest organs to replace are those that function relatively straightforwardly and mechanically, such as bones, skin, or corneas. Other organs are more complex, such as kidneys, which not only ...

For 150 years, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was thought to be the average body temperature for a healthy human being. But that number is wrong. “Doctors are no different from anybody else,” says ...

“An Estimation of the Number of Cells in the Human Body.” The authors–a team of scientists from Italy, Greece, and Spain–admit that they’re hardly the first people to tackle this questio ...

In a gruesome yet preposterous video that's straight out of a David Cronenberg body horror movie, a biologist proposes that doctors in the future will be able to remove a human head from one body ...

A version of this article with the title “The Human Body Is Made of Bags” was adapted for inclusion in the June 2024 issue of Scientific American.

The headless, armless torso was found on Breezy Point Beach in Queens on Friday Getty A dismembered human body without a head or arms was discovered along a New York City beach this week.