The plantar fascia, or connective tissue, on the bottom of the feet is about the toughest soft tissue in the body and carries approximately 14 percent of the total load of the body with each step.

Connective tissue protein fights bacterial infection Same protein restrains dangerous immune overreaction in sepsis Date: June 28, 2021 Source: NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine ...

Researchers knew that this type of tissue existed but, again, they assumed it was just a network of connective tissue. Still, modern medicine has all sorts of imaging tools that let us peep inside ...

For decades, scientists have tried to peer deep inside the human brain using beams of harmless near-infrared light. The technique, called functional near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, has become a ...

Inside the Innovative Lab Growing Mammal Tissue Using Plants as Scaffolds Researchers at the University of Ottawa have used apple flesh to create human tissue in the ...