Unlike most other animals, snakes do not have limbs to help them get from one place to another. Instead, they slither — but there's a little more to snake anatomy than how they move. Finely tuned for ...

Octopuses are fascinating. Their eight arms gracefully whip through water and can accomplish extraordinary tasks like using ...

A recent study by Dr. Jordan Verplank, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Genetics at the ...

Galen of Pergamon was the most influential ancient Greek physician after Hippocrates and is considered the father of pharmacology ...

Eight out of 10 Americans will experience back pain at least once or more in their lifetimes. In fact, a third of people ages ...

Ty Pendlebury has worked at CNET since 2006. He lives in New York City where he writes about streaming and home audio. Expertise Ty has worked for radio, print, and online publications, and has ...

Anthony Magliari has come a long way in his 15 years of rehabilitation. He suffered a spinal cord injury during a motorcycle ...

Female anatomy differs from male anatomy in many different respects. Generally speaking, girls and women are smaller, overall, than boys and men, and have less dense bones, more fat tissue ...

The pons connects your brain to your spinal cord and controls your unconscious ... using fetal sonography during the second-trimester anatomy check. Your obstetrician can then use fetal MRI ...

Spinal cord injuries (SCI) are devastating medical conditions, often resulting in permanent loss of sensory and motor functions, and no treatment was found yet. However, promising candidates like ...

The biotech company Scholar Rock reported Monday that its experimental medicine improved motor function in patients with a muscle-wasting disease called spinal muscular atrophy, paving the way for ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic disorder that causes severe muscle weakness. SMA usually affects children, and is typically diagnosed in the first 18 months of life. In its most ...