The human body, I know, did not evolve to swim laps ... Her mother and sister secretly urged her on. Today she is a national hero, and her prize money helps support a large extended family.

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic ... 3-D printers to make living body parts. Called bioprinters, these machines use human cells as “ink.” ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... In 2015, after Hevel’s father died from Lewy body dementia, her family wanted to offer his brain for research ...

Over generations, eyelashes and body hair might ... 2016 issue of National Geographic.) No technology remotely as powerful has existed before for the manipulation of the human genome.

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. “You need to have your throat cut out and your decomposing, bug-infested body fed ... a glimpse of human nature ...

No such obstacle faced Woo-Suk Hwang and his colleagues at Seoul National University in February 2004 when they became the world's first to clone human embryos and extract stem cells from them.