An overlooked organ finally gets the anatomical attention it has long been denied.

Once described by a 16th-century anatomist as the "shameful member," the clitoris has historically been ignored in research ...

The golden orb-weaver spider from Tanzania spins such strong webs that Tanzanian fishermen use them for fishing. Their spider silk is more tear-resistant than nylon and four times more elastic than ...

The image shows motor neurons that have been generated from human iPSC (induced pluripotent stem cells) and integrated into a 3D-printed bioscaffold. The cells (shown in red) grow inside the ...

When Yadong Wang, a chemist by training, first ventured into nerve regeneration two years ago, he didn't know that his peers would have considered him crazy. His idea was simple: Because neural ...

New research from OHSU looked at human tissue to try to understand how many nerve fibers are contained in the clitoris. It seems to be the first time that this has ever been studied (a previous ...

When brain tissue and fat tissue “talk” to each other, the body’s fat mass is in the balance. While fat-to-brain signaling is fairly easy to overhear, the other side of the conversation has been all ...