There are four types of medical anesthetics used by medical professionals, depending on what type of procedure you are having. Share on Pinterest Santi Nuñez/Stocksy United Anesthesia is used to ...

Donna L. Farber is a professor of surgical sciences, microbiology and immunology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, New York, USA. Early in the pandemic, my team spotted ...

Soft tissue sarcomas are a group of rare cancers that can occur in almost any part of the body and develop in tissues like muscle, fat, and nerves. The most common types are leiomyosarcoma, ...

Genetic studies have revealed many genes linked to both common and rare disease, but to understand how those genes bring about disease and use those insights to help develop therapies, scientists need ...

The scope of human cell type atlases widened considerably today. Formerly, landscapes of individual cell types were largely confined to single organs. But now, thanks to four single-cell RNA ...

Surgeons used to think that fascia is a tissue that just covered organs, muscles, and bones. Now, though, the medical world has expanded the definition to include tissue that surrounds all of the ...

Researchers are attempting to uncover the basics of how fat tissue is structured and, specifically, inflammation associated with obesity, in the hopes of unlocking the connection between the ...

A hypersensitivity reaction happens when the immune system mistakenly identifies harmless substances as harmful. There are several types of hypersensitivity reactions, depending on the class of ...

Kristin Weiland is a documentary film producer and writer with a background in crisis management and ethnographic research. She specializes in investigative and social impact documentary projects, and ...

Teratomas are embryonal tumors that arise in the germ cells and contain different types of tissues, including bone, teeth, hair, and muscle. 1 Scientists have classified teratomas as a rare type of ...