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 ...

A new study from researchers at Tulane National Primate Research Center suggests the coronavirus may infect four different areas of the male genital tract, adding to evidence that a COVID-19 infection ...

Surprising pattern: The genetic programmes responsible for the development of sex-specific organ characteristics in mammals are turned on almost exclusively late in the development of the organs, in ...

Your anatomy operates like a machine, it's success hinging on the work of over 70 organs, each with a unique function. From the heart's blood-pumping ability to the liver's filtering power, each ...

All life is made of cells. But to build a complex, multicelled organism from those cells almost always requires them to come in more than one type. This means that as the number of cells in a growing ...