An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each component of the human ... organ. In the upper right part of your abdomen, the liver is your body's filtration system.

The machine, nicknamed "lungs in a box", mimics the human body and surgeon Marius Berman said it could increase the number of transplants by 30%. Daniel Evans-Smith, a 49-year-old event manager from ...

The study reviewed approximately 3,000 research papers and identified potential links between airborne microplastics and ...

Examination of the mucosal immune system as a global organ, rather than as a group of ... the development of asthma in the lungs. Furthermore, with the emergence of microbiota studies, the hygiene ...

Researchers from the lab of Prof. Sarah-Maria Fendt (VIB-KU Leuven) and colleagues have uncovered that the availability of the amino acid aspartate is one reason why the lung is a frequent organ of ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Before, it was inconceivable: risk-free biomedical testing on living human organs. But new “organs-on-chips ...