D printing skin, bone, and even working organs could change transplant medicine and medical research — but how, exactly, does ...

Within multicellular organisms, tissues are organized communities of cells that work together to carry out a specific function. The exact role of a tissue in an organism depends on what types of ...

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types ...

The human body uses three types of molecules to ... Adipose and skeletal muscle tissues have GLUT4, a type of GLUT which is present in the plasma membrane only when blood glucose concentration ...

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan is an important tool to help doctors see what’s happening inside your body. But new, ...