In the short term, these multi-zonal liver organoids will help scientists shed new light on diseases including diabetes, drug-induced liver injury, alcohol-related liver disease, and viral hepatitis.

Your body can produce an infinite number of binding sites to bind to antigens. Immunoglobulin G (IgG) accounts for around 75% of all antibodies in the human body. Depending on the antigen, IgG can ...

Most people have 24 ribs, with 12 on each side of the body. No evidence indicates any difference between males and females. The ribs and rib cage are excellent examples of the human body’s ...

Smoking can cause long-term negative effects on the body, including heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Smoking is dangerous to your health. It can harm nearly every organ in your body and ...

Researchers have shown that open-label placebos can help ... "This is associated with a feeling of self-efficacy: my body is able to help itself." The study leader believes that this interaction ...

The research was published in Science Advances on 26 March. The study suggests that the postnatal period in the body is much longer than people tend to assume, says Jennifer Hall, who researches ...

At the same time, we know much can be gained from studying the human body. We learn much from the bodies of the dead, which these days are used for teaching and research only with consent.

People with catheters, breathing tubes, feeding tubes and PICC lines are at the highest risk because the pathogen can enter the body through these types of devices. When the fungus infects a ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years from which to fully recover. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore ...

Spending months in microgravity is brutal on the body. Without the Earth’s gravitational pull, muscles shrink, bones weaken and bodily fluids shift. Astronauts lose muscle mass rapidly because ...