It serves as a very important barrier between the body and bacteria, chemicals, and temperature. Healthline reports that the top five largest organs in the human body are: The liver is the body ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

The compound that gives fruits, vegetables, and flowers their color counteracts the toxicity of microplastics, a new study ...

A study published last month in Nature Plants describes shared biochemical pathways involved in vitamin B6 levels that link ...

But new “organs-on-chips” technology is emulating ... a static environment that doesn’t let cells behave as if they are in the human body. Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. "We know there are many symbionts in the world ...

Much like humans generate mountains of garbage, our cells are constantly discarding proteins that are damaged or no longer ...

Israeli researchers have discovered a surprising immune defense role of the proteasome, a cellular structure known for ...