Not all organs are needed for survival. From your gallbladder to your spleen, here are 12 organs you can lose and still ...

The risk of rejection can be offset by carefully matching the molecular similarities between a donor and patient and making ...

The visible signs of ageing – wrinkles, greying hair, aching joints – are only the surface expression of something far more ...

Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts. Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts.

You might celebrate one birthday each year, but inside your body, different organs are marching to their own biological drums. That number on your driver’s license? It’s just a rough average that ...

On some level, we all know that each day is one step closer to our inevitable end, but you might not know that there's an age when that pace quickens.

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have ...

Hangovers are a common aftermath of alcohol consumption, leaving many to wonder what exactly is happening inside their bodies. From the pounding headache to the queasy stomach, each symptom tells a ...

When the human body gets hurt, most tissues heal—skin closes over a wound, bone heals itself. But not all organs heal that ...

Climate change has been wreaking havoc on our largest organ: the skin. Extreme heat, pollution and changing rainfall can ...

ATLANTA — The mother of a Georgia model whose body was found missing his organs wants to conduct her own forensic investigation into the case. Ryan Singleton, a model from Atlanta flew to Los Angeles ...