The rectum is the last organ of the digestive system. It is a six-inch long canal consisting of pelvic floor muscles and two anal sphincters (internal and external). These allow you to hold in feces ...

How to register as a donor, and how donations improve the health of people living in Canada. Help those in need by becoming a donor today.

Its pathological hallmark is the abnormal aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn) into insoluble fibrils and Lewy bodies, leading to the degeneration and death of dopaminergic neurons in the ...

Some people want to donate their organs or body parts for transplants. Others want their bodies to be used for research. Donating your body is a very personal choice. Some people don’t want to do this ...

Flour, France Struggling to raise funds for the restoration of his cathedral’s antique organ, a priest from St.-Flour, a small town in France’s heartland, came up with a creative solution.

“[Organoids are] clumps of cells in a dish that mimic the real tissue in your body, and you can grow them from neurons,” he said ... as they mimic how human organs behave and function.

Recent studies suggest that calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) neurons in the parabrachial nucleus (PBN) represent aversive information and signal a general alarm to the forebrain. If CGRP neurons ...

But two key features of the space are staying behind: the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ and Eagle sculpture. Both objects are protected by the Philadelphia Historical Commission. The Eagle statue ...

Her decision to be an organ donor was celebrated by most of those in attendance along with certain aspects of her personality. “One word to describe Elana Franks was ‘tough,’” Wood said.

Using conventional cell models to study histone modifications has been the focus of epigenetic research for years, but to study them in neurons is particularly challenging. It was not until 2019 ...

Conductor Benjamin Boyle turns the pages for organist John Walthausen as they prepare for the debut concert of the Church of the Gesu's restored pipe organ. (Peter Crimmins/ WHYY) From Philly and the ...