An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

The discovery of the interstitium made waves, with many questioning whether scientists had discovered a new organ. “It's actually not an organ. It's a system,” said Neil Theise, a medical doctor and ...

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine recently joined a nationwide, NIH-funded initiative to develop the first comprehensive digital map of the healthy human body. The Whole Person Physiome ...