Sad sack or serious salvation? A small group of scientists is angling to replace laboratory animals with living “organ sacks” ...

Many aspects of our world, from the body mass of creatures in the animal kingdom to the population of cities across the globe, follow an intriguing mathematical pattern. Known as Zipf's law, the rule ...

The U.S. government has recognized the expansion of the biological threat landscape, as evidenced by the guidance and priority missions outlined in various documents, including the 2023 Department of ...

In a proof-of-concept study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that an ...

The growing recognition that the human body functions as an integrated, communicative whole, rather than a collection of isolated organs, is a welcome and important development. This systems-level ...

Kids won’t need beakers and microscopes for these biology experiments—they just need themselves! Each of these five experiments lets children discover how a human body system works. And by doing these ...