Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast ...

A joint research team led by Professors Jaesok Yu, Hoejoon Kim, and Sanghoon Lee of the Department of Robotics and ...

Heart doctors are capturing images of the inside of heart arteries, helping them watch plaque respond to cholesterol drugs in ...

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Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune function — a hidden “sixth sense” called interoception. Now, Nobel laureate Ardem ...

The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an ...

The contribution of genetics to the variability in people’s metabolism has remained largely unknown. This is, in part, because genetic studies of human metabolism have been limited in scale and ...

PHILADELPHIA— Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania are joining a national collaboration to launch the Whole Person Physiome Research and Coordination ...

Researchers found that patients with microplastics in their arterial plaque were 4.5 times more likely to have a heart attack, stroke, or die within three years. A 2025 study published in the New ...

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body reorganizes itself to compensate for missing body parts. Previous research had ...

Each organ in the human body contains different types of cells arranged in specific ways. These arrangements aid protein interactions, which drive important functions such as nutrient and waste ...