For most of medical history, the human body has been treated like a fragile machine: when something breaks, you call in outside help to fix it. Yet a growing wave of research is turning that story on its head, revealing that our tissues, cells, and even genes are constantly repairing damage in ways that ...
Snap a twig, and it stays broken. Break a bone, and if you give it time, it quietly rebuilds itself from the inside out. That simple contrast hides one of the most astonishing facts about us: our skeleton is not a static frame, but an active, self-repairing organ system that never really stops remodeling. Every ...
We tend to think of healing as a miracle that happens to us, not a process engineered by us, cell by cell, minute by minute. Yet the body is constantly patching, cleaning, and upgrading itself with a precision that would shame most factory floors. Scientists are now mapping these repair systems in high definition, ...
