The free Human Organ Atlas gives users an up-close-and-personal look at 56 human organs.

Surgeons were stunned when a routine brain biopsy revealed a living, 80mm predator thriving inside a patient’s frontal lobe.

Spleen volume larger than the 99th percentile was associated with an 11-fold increased risk for hematologic cancer compared with normal volumes, with 5-year risks as high as 46% among men aged 70 ...

Isabel Casimiro, MD, PhD, is an endocrinologist at the University of Chicago in Illinois. As a physician-scientist in molecular biology, she uses her research on diabetes, lipid disorders, ...

After losing the first two matches to Australia in the ODI series, the Indian team had a near-perfect outing in the final game of the series in Sydney. The bowlers did a good job and did not let ...

Indian cricket's ODI vice-captain Shreyas Iyer is in Sydney's ICU after suffering a spleen laceration during a match against Australia. The injury occurred while taking a catch, leading to internal ...

The spleen is a delicate, fist-sized organ under your left rib cage near your stomach. It contains special white blood cells that destroy bacteria and help your body fight infections. The spleen also ...

Advances in the transplant of cells into the spleen could transform one of the body’s “expendable” organs into a hub for treating diabetes, two Chinese studies have found. Research published last ...

Wendy Rappaport was hospitalized for two months after she said in a lawsuit that her healthy kidney was removed instead of her spleen Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty A Minnesota woman has filed a ...

A Twin Cities woman is suing over an alleged medical mistake that she says cost her a healthy left kidney. In a lawsuit filed Friday, Wendy Rappaport of Plymouth accuses the surgeon and the Allina ...

The thymus, spleen, and lymph nodes were studied in runt disease induced by a graft of intravenously injected homologous splenic cells into newborn rats and mice. Adult Long-Evans cells (70 x 10(6)) ...

The spleen is a key component of the immune system. It filters old blood cells, bacteria, tumor cells out of the blood and breaks them down. The macrophages then get rid of them. What's inside us? Our ...