Study reveals that early embryonic cells can switch roles, reshaping what we know about how fins, gills, and other body ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Medical sculptor Damon Coyle walks around with a Mary Poppins bag of body parts. Fake ones, that is. At the University of Missouri, his lab creates hyperrealistic body parts designed to help medical ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...