What to know about your liver The liver is the body’s largest solid, internal organ. In the upper right part of your abdomen, the liver is your body's filtration system.

Wearing blue rubber gloves, Molly Dobrow reached into a metal vat of diluted sodium hydroxide and pulled out two dripping-wet models of human organs: a heart and a set of lungs. Made of Elastico ...

Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have created the world's most sophisticated lab model of the human body, developing a full system of miniaturized organs known as ...

Heat stroke occurs when the body reaches an internal temperature of 104 degrees and above. By this point, blood pressure has often dropped too low for too long, causing internal organs to become ...

Each cell type has a different media, and the incubator or bioreactor acts as an oven-like device mimicking the internal temperature and oxygenation of the human body, Atala said.

So far, researchers also used 3-D printing in medicine and dentistry to create dental implants, prosthetics, and models for surgeons to practice on before they make cuts on a patient. But many ...

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1. Skin (Image credit: Toa55 via Getty Images) Skin wears the crown of the heaviest organ in the human body — however, there's some discrepancy as to how much it actually weighs.

Miniature models of human organs may provide a more accurate predictor of drug efficacy than animal testing By Brian Gormley Follow April 20, 2023 6:00 am ET ...

It is an external rather than an internal organ. According to National Geographic, the average adult carries around 8 pounds and 22 square feet of skin on their body.