Researchers found that the average human brain temperature is surprisingly hot.
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A new study finds that the average liver is no more than three years old, no matter the age of the person carrying…
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You remember the Segway, the two-wheeled device that required a gymnastics-level of balance to ride standing…
Aside from pockets of overt racism, one of the more weirdly unpleasant corners of Twitter comes from its “promoted”…
A 99-year-old woman in Oregon lived a long life with one of the world’s rarest and often fatal conditions: a body in…
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We’re all familiar with the flashy, big-ticket organs: the heart, the brain, the lungs. Their celebrity often…
A team of doctors in Brazil have announced a medical first that could someday help countless women unable to have…
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As if the fear of a looming nuclear war wasn’t enough, Sam Battle, the hacker-musician behind the YouTube channel Loo…
Transplants aren’t as easy as heading to the organ bank and using your organ card to withdraw an organ from the…
Several dozen embryos sat in a lab that seemed straight out of a David Lynch film—part pig, part human. It’s just…
It’s a beautiful tale of graciousness and sacrifice. Hopeless, drug-addled mice, suddenly stricken with diabetes,…
Meet Patty Brennan, she has one of the most interesting jobs that anyone could possibly ever have because she’s an…
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New research suggests that the appendix, long believed to be a throwback to our evolutionary past, may serve an…
In an effort to tackle the organ donor shortage, researchers in the United States have successfully created…
In news that sounds straight out of a dystopian Margaret Atwood novel, surgeons managed to keep a genetically…
Though it may not look at all like the muscle in your chest, this heart-on-a-chip can beat like the real thing. A…
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The waiting list for organ transplants is growing at an alarming rate while the number of potential organ donors has…
Put these on your walls for a classier Halloween vibe than the one at my home. (I once recreated the X-Files "I Want…
It pumps blood. Duh. Well, for most of history, people were unsure what the heart's main function was. Even Leonardo…
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