An essential component of the lymphatic system, the thymus, a pyramid-shaped organ located in the thoracic cavity, is responsible for producing T-cells. For centuries, the thymus was believed to be an ...

When an expansive curlicue of tissue sitting below the ovaries was discovered more than a century ago, it was dismissed as useless and erased from biology textbooks. Biologists now are taking a new ...

Knowledge graphs are a powerful tool for bringing together information from biological databases and linking what is already ...

The so-called NKCC1 protein is found throughout the human body where it has important functions in organs that process fluids or perform neurotransmission. A research team has now determined a ...

A team of researchers from Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Irving Medical Center has developed a multi-organ chip consisting of engineered human heart, bone, liver, and skin that are ...

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London in London, UK have developed a ...

Organoids refer to small-scale organs made up of diverse cell types, exhibiting structures and functions akin to actual organs. Unlike conventional cell cultures, organoids better replicate human ...

The prefrontal cortex region of the human brain is responsible for a range of complex functions from decision-making to certain types of memory. When something goes wrong in this part of the brain, it ...

Within minutes of the final heartbeat, a cascade of biochemical events triggered by a lack of blood flow, oxygen, and nutrients begins to destroy a body’s cells and organs. But a team of Yale ...