Wall St. Insights Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, ...
The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...
Your Blood Vessels Could Circle Earth Four Times Laid end to end, an adult's blood vessels could circle Earth's equator four ...
As a kid of the 1970s, Mary Roach sat in front of the TV watching “The Six Million Dollar Man” promise a techno-rebirth. “We can rebuild him,” the narrator intoned. “Better than he was before. Better.
It seems like every week, there’s a new headline about some kind of sci-fi-esque organ transplant. Think eyeballs, 3D-printed kidneys, pig hearts. In her new book, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human ...
All bodily systems are connected and help inform one another; some link in ways that may surprise you. A new study highlights ...