Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing ...

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

The human body is incredibly resilient. When you donate a pint of blood, you lose about 3.5 trillion red blood cells, but your body quickly replaces them. You can even lose large chunks of vital ...

You might celebrate one birthday each year, but inside your body, different organs are marching to their own biological drums. That number on your driver’s license? It’s just a rough average that ...

The scene at OneLegacy in Azusa on a recent Friday morning would have been familiar to anyone who’s been in a hospital intensive care unit. Three adults were tucked into hospital beds, still and ...

In 2019, Nenad Sestan and a team of researchers at Yale University announced the seemingly impossible: They had revived a pig’s brain after death, restoring cellular functions that, according to the ...

How the human body shuts down after death from the brain to the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and even tissues and why some organs remain viable for donation long after life ends.

The researchers published their findings on the procedure in the journal Nature. Lead author Nenad Sestan told a group of reporters on Tuesday that the research could help open new doors in organ ...