Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some ...

Scientists are reframing what it means to “feel” the world, revealing that our fingertips host a subtle sense that lets us ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...

It is a question that feels like it should have a straightforward answer: how many senses do humans have? Growing up, most of us learned that there are five main senses – sight, smell, hearing, taste, ...

Professor G. H. Parker S.B. '87, professor of zoology, will deliver the first of his course of eight Lowell lectures on "The Human Sense Organs and Their Evolution," in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston ...

It depends if you count teeth as a group or separately. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Organs are collections of tissues that ...

The human body is a wonderful biological work of art, composed of a great many organs, each carrying out special functions that are part of life and well-being. Though the human body contains about 78 ...

A new study reversed transplant rejection twice, uncovering the reasons for transplant rejection on a cellular level ...