Here’s a hypothetical question if there ever was one: What would it cost to create Benedict Cumberbatch from scratch – that is, to acquire the basic elements such as carbon, calcium and phosphorous ...

In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...

WHEN it was announced some time ago that the Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge was engaged in writing a systematic work on Human Anatomy, its publication was looked for with ...

Gavin Francis is not a traditional traveler. The landscape he explores is human anatomy, his maps are x-rays. “I journey through the body as I listen to my patients’ lungs, manipulate their joints, or ...

In 1895, when the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered mysterious rays that could pass through muscles, tendons and skin, he trained these invisible beams of light onto his wife’s fingers and ...

Maryland guard Dez Wells was flipping through a “Biomechanics of Sport and Science” anatomy textbook when he spotted a familiar face in a photo on the objectives page of Chapter 14. It was Wells, from ...

Philadelphia’s College of Physicians is home to tens of thousands of books on medicine spanning centuries of health and science. This week, the group will bring out one of its most prized volumes, a ...