Five vital organs are essential for life, but survival is more medically complex.

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And often you’re not even aware that they exist. There are tons of things we ...

When we think about aging, we often imagine it as a uniform process—our entire body growing older in lockstep. But new research posits that aging doesn't work this way. Instead, our organs age at ...

Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts. Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts.

Your mom was right all along. Standing up straight isn’t just about looking confident or adding those extra inches to your height. The way you hold yourself throughout the day could be silently ...

Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here. Editor’s note: The podcast ...

Recently, scientists at Stanford University began to wonder why identical lab mice, bred with the same DNA and brought up in identical conditions, wound up so different in their old age. Some mice ...

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And often you’re not even aware that they exist. There are tons of things we ...