After centuries of mapping the human body in ever-finer detail ... "This is like discovering a new recycling center inside the cell," said biophysicist Seham Ebrahim of the University of Virginia. "We ...

The human body is a strange and wonderful thing. It's also soft and squishy and vulnerable to all manner of threats, both from outside the body and within. One extremely rare protection strategy ...

The Franklin Institute’s new “Body Worlds: Vital” exhibit features 150 real human specimens — including 20 whole-body plastinates — to explore the human condition.