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For 150 years, 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit was thought to be the average body temperature for a healthy human being. But that number is wrong. “Doctors are no different from anybody else,” says Julie ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...

In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, researchers examined the relationship between cell size and count across the human body, establishing a quantitative framework and uncovering ...

The average body contains about 37 trillion cells – and we are in the midst of a revolutionary quest to understand what they all do. Unravelling this requires the expertise of scientists from all ...