Medicine is on the brink of an era where microscopic devices inside our bodies connect us directly to the digital world.

Explore 15 real-world innovations where animal biology inspired modern technology, from robots to raincoats and more.

Humans have long wondered when and how we begin to form thoughts. Are we born with a pre-configured brain, or do thought patterns only begin to emerge in response to our sensory experiences of the ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

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

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms ...

At this stage, known as gastrulation, a flat and featureless sheet of cells folds into a living blueprint for the body, a ...

Slicing up and analyzing real, living, three-dimensional brain tissue comes with some obvious complications – as in, it tends ...

A new study provides a powerful way to study infections in environments that closely mimic human organs. The strategy, tested ...

NASA is about to run a health check in deep space using tiny lab devices that carry living human cells. The goal is simple and serious, understand how space changes our bodies so crews can travel ...

Background: Traditional cadaveric dissection is considered the gold standard in anatomical education; however, its accessibility is limited by ethical, logistical, and financial constraints. Recent ...