To many a bright-eyed first year medical student, there’s one experience that marks a real turning point or ‘rite of passage’ into the medical field. That moment when textbook studies leave the stage, ...

Learning with TOI News: The human body is made up of interconnected systems, such as the skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, and nervous systems, whic ...

Da Vinci’s interest in anatomy was both scientific and artistic, as shown by his note on his pages on arm and neck muscles: “This arm from the elbow [to the shoulder] must be drawn in four ...

Using white card stock, scissors and some glue, Horst Kiechle created an anatomically-correct model of the human torso with removable organs. Now you can too!

Our research suggests that the human heart has adapted to support our upright stance, movement and larger brain. Over the last 10 years, we have been conducting assessments of the cardiovascular ...

Leonardo da Vinci's studies of human anatomy were hundreds of years ahead of their time - and his detailed drawings of the heart still resonate today, says a book by a cardiac surgeon.

Galen dissecting a monkey, Veloso Salgado (1906). wikimedia It wasn’t until the 14th century that anatomy and medical science advanced thanks to the start of systematic human cadaver dissections.

A researcher holds a customized, 3D-printed heart made to mimic the shape and behavior of a patient's heart. (Melanie Gonick/MIT) Engineers can now print three-dimensional replicas of a human ...