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The sole function of the clitoris is female orgasm. Is that why it’s ignored by medical science?
Medical textbooks are full of anatomical pictures of the penis, but the clitoris barely rates a mention. Many medical professionals are uncomfortable even talking about it
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Why medics and the law clash with family in brain death cases – Sharon Kaufman
What happens when there are two competing definitions of death, confounding our understanding of the end of life? On 9 December 2013, Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old African-American girl living in Oakland, California, entered the hospital for a tonsillectomy, still one of the most common surgical procedures performed on children and often recommended for sleep apnoea, a condition she had been living with.
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The Genetic Program That Governs the Birth of Vision
How is the retina formed? And how do neurons differentiate to become individual components of the visual system? By focusing on the early stages of this complex process, researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in collaboration with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), have identified the genetic programmes governing the birth of different types of retinal cells and their capacity to wire to the correct part of the brain, where they transmit visual information.
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Scientists identify gene partnerships that promote spinal cord regeneration
Researchers are one step closer to solving the mystery of why some vertebrates can regenerate their spinal cords while others, including humans, create scar tissue after spinal cord injury, leading to lifelong damage. Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified gene "partners" in the axolotl salamander that, when activated, allow the neural tube and associated nerve fibers to functionally regenerate after severe spinal cord damage.
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Rewriting the brain pathway for consciousness
With a finding that will "rewrite neuroanatomy textbooks," University of Iowa neurologist Aaron Boes, MD, Ph.D., and his colleagues show that the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain pathway involved in keeping humans awake and conscious.
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Differences Found in Women's Birth Canals Are Contradicting What Evolutionary Science Told Us
No two child births are the same, but the female physiology that brings people into the world is more varied and complex than what science textbooks would have you believe, new research suggests.
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Descended testicles: DNA study drops new hints on secrets of low hanging glands
Keeping everything outside the body seems like a strange choice.
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Humanistic Anatomy
If Ramón y Cajal’s medical renown was partly a product of his artistry, then his drawings’ aesthetic virtues can’t be separated from their effectiveness as scientific documents. By Jackson Arn.
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Go Inside a Synthetic Cadaver Factory
Florida's SynDaver Labs makes extraordinarily advanced anatomical models. By Eric Grundhauser.
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Here's What Happens Inside Your Body When You Flex Your Fingers
Hold your hand in front of you, palm up and fingers splayed. Now bend your fingers at their first joint past the knuckles.
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Gut Decision: Scientists Identify New Organ in Humans
A review in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology describes the mesentery, which researchers have recently reclassified as an organ. By Sarah G. Miller.
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The Seahorse In Your Brain: Where Body Parts Got Their Names
What are those dog ears doing on my heart? Ancient anatomists named body parts after things they resembled in real life. So you’ve got a rooster comb in your skull and a flute in your leg. By Joy Ho, Erin Ross.
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The human clitoris is an object of beauty, pleasure and intrigue
It seems remarkable to me that well into the twenty-first century we still have so much to learn about many parts of the human body. Organs we’re all very familiar with - ones we take for granted - still…
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The History of Life-Sized, Fully Dissectible “Anatomical Venuses”
In the 18th century, medical students and the general public learned about the insides of the human body through a tool that to 21st-century eyes likely appears shocking or offensive. By Claire Voon.
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How The Medical Cadaver Finally Got the Respect it Deserves
The rise and fall of medical cadaver ceremonies. By Natalie Zarrelli.
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Check Out a Medical Pop-Up Book From the 17th Century
Early movable books were geared towards informing adults not entertaining children. By Marissa Fessenden. (Jan. 13)
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Anatomical Embroideries by Juana Gomez
Embroideries on faded photographs of the human body by Chilean artist Juana Gomez.
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The ‘Rembrandts of anatomical preparation’ who turned skeletons into art
In the 17th and 18th centuries, makers of osteological specimens built fanciful displays with skeletons standing in landscapes made with embalmed human organs, skeletons dangling hearts on a string...
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