A fully developed adult human will typically have 206 bones in their body. These bones work well together and provide the rigid, yet mobile, structure that your body needs to perform everyday tasks.

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The From Labs to Lives Blog connects everyday topics with UC Davis research. Each post is reviewed by our experts, ensuring you always get useful information you can trust. Because we can’t see them, ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...

Imagine waking up one day and your skull, ribcage, femur, and every other bone in your body suddenly vanished. Sounds like a nightmare, right? While this might seem like science fiction, it highlights ...