Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...

Many of the body's processes slow down or falter as we get older, including tissue regeneration. In a new study, researchers ...

Scientists discover how aging alters the function of cells, called mesenchymal drift, and manage to reverse this process.

Hidden inside every organ, microscopic fibers form a scaffolding that quietly shapes how we move, think, and heal. For the first time, scientists have produced detailed maps of these fiber webs across ...

Carnegie Mellon received $28.5 million to develop liver tissue bioprinting, with hopes it can reduce the need for transplants ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Microplastics are often named as a major polluter of both the planet and our bodies, but what does the actual science say?

A new study shows that the body’s early immune response, not the virus itself, often determines how severe a rhinovirus cold ...

Your chances of catching a cold—and how miserable it feels—may depend more on your body than on the virus itself.