The biomechanics of how cancer cells escape from the bloodstream to invade other organs has been described for the first time by researchers from UCL, MIT and their collaborators. Neuroscientists have ...

The study sheds light on how the digestive system varies with every person, and how it can determine health and how the microbial ecosystem is made. According to a recent study, the human digestive ...

Well, the blood has to be kept moving around all the time because it's the body's delivery system. Every possible part of the body has to be supplied with oxygen and food and water, and the veins and ...

Water and nutrients are important to keep living things alive and healthy. Animals, including humans, get these from what they eat and drink, but how do the water and nutrients get transported around ...

This film explores the complex process of human digestion, detailing how food is broken down into molecules by the digestive system. It follows the journey of food from the mouth, where it is chewed ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Our bodies certainly are busy. All the different structures in us working together to achieve the ...

Before humans can benefit from new drug therapies and nutritional additives, scientists test their safety and efficacy in animals, typically mice and rats. But, as much as they've done for biomedical ...