Scientists have officially grown a notochord—the tissues that act as the “GPS for the developing embryo” by guiding the formation of the spine and nervous system.

Those signals travel through nerves that run through your spinal cord, which is protected by bones called vertebrae. Then there's the rib cage and sternum, which protect the heart and lungs.

This paper cuts directly into critical debates about how the ancient spinal cord and the relatively new human ... Blackcurrant Supplementing Mitigates Postmenopausal Bone Loss, Study Finds Sep.

Medically reviewed by Kashif J. Piracha, MD The hyoid bone is a small horseshoe-shaped bone located in the front of your neck ...

Chimps have thigh bones that do not slope inward to the knee ... a role to which it is structurally well suited. The human spine has been transformed into a weight bearing column, putting it ...