This is particularly important, as a working notochord in human stem cells could help further research into how birth defects affect the spine or spinal cord. The researchers note that it could ...

Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the formation of the spine and nervous system. Previous attempts to create a ...

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel shared how their anatomy operates with separate organs as well as fused organs they ...

Although the 34-year-old sisters—among the oldest dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins—share blood circulation, their brains and spinal cords ... their unique anatomy," the video's narrator ...

Clinical features of shingles. DermNet. Dermatomes. Maine Developmental Disabilities Council. Dermatomes Anatomy. Cedars-Sinai. Spinal Cord and Nerve Roots. Patel NT, Smith HF. Clinically Relevant ...

This photo, made with a fish eye lens, captured the display over Marina Bay, Singapore.

Photo / BMJ A couple who decided to have sex ... about women’s bodies that changed the understanding of female anatomy forever. Ida Sabelis and her boyfriend Jupp had sexual intercourse in ...

In a time of viral sensations, the influence of photojournalism can go beyond newsworthiness, as images are propelled ... the only witness of human presence between these two powerful forces ...

Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family ...

The long-held theory of human evolution says that modern humans originated in Africa and then migrated to other parts of the world. However, that “out of Africa” model is being challenged by a ...

One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...