Without the aorta, the body’s tissues wouldn’t get the oxygen and nutrients that they need. The aorta is connected to your heart via the aortic valve. It’s formed of the following parts: ...

Cardiac muscle tissue is one of the three types of muscle tissue in your body. It plays an important role in making your heart beat. We’ll go over the unique features of cardiac muscle tissue ...

Traditional ultrasound uses sound waves to penetrate a human body and bounce back off different tissues. Light, of course, cannot penetrate a human body as deeply as sound.

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is ...

A new study is the first to identify a biological clock able to gauge the age of most human tissues. Some parts of the anatomy, like a woman's breasts, age faster than the rest of the body.

Scientists in Wendell Lim's lab at UC San Francisco hope that a synthetic signaling molecule, dubbed synNotch, will allow scientists to create tissues and organs within the body, with ready-made ...

This month, a team from the California Institute of Technology unveiled a system to 3D print tissues inside the body—no surgery needed. Dubbed deep tissue in vivo sound printing (DISP), the system ...

It turns out that the tissue in women’s breasts age three years faster than the rest of their body. Andy Coghlan at New Scientist spoke with Steve Horvath, the lead researcher on the work: ...