She is also a producer and creative director for YogaRenew. With the country entering the coldest part of the year, you ...

The metabolic activity of any tissue is limited by its blood supply; the more active any organ, the more blood it needs and the more extensive its vascularization. The changes in metabolic activity ...

RIKEN researchers have imitated the formation of organs in the lab by "hacking" certain signaling pathways that guide the development of connective tissues in the embryo, which support the formation ...

For nine months, you were enveloped in the warm, comfortable world of your mother's womb. Your every need was taken care of. The placenta supplied you with oxygen from your mother's blood, so your own ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There's perhaps no element of the body that captures our imagination more than the heart. We link it ...

For people who need a lung transplant, the wait is often prolonged by the frustrating fact that most donor organs have to be discarded: Only 20% of donated lungs meet medical criteria for ...

Water and nutrients are important to keep living things alive and healthy. Animals, including humans, get these from what they eat and drink, but how do the water and nutrients get transported around ...

A puzzle for millennia, the movement of blood through the body was solved by an English physician in the 17th century, paving the way for modern medical technologies. What do chemotherapy, dialysis, ...

Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been as weak as in the last decades. Researchers compiled proxy data, ...