The diagram of the human body that accompanied yesterday’s story about diabetes was mistakenly reversed. The liver should have been shown on the left side of the diagram and the stomach with small ...

Your kidneys are like filters. Your brain is like a computer. Your digestive system is like a tube. Your hands are controlled a bit like a marionette. These comparisons exist in part because doctors ...

The human body is made up of interconnected systems, such as the skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems, which perform specific functions. Organs are ...

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 types ...

Gopalasamudram Narayana Ramachandran, a brilliant Indian scientist, revolutionized protein research and medical imaging with three major discoveries. His work on the triple-helix collagen model, the ...