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Anatomy and Physiology

Change your perception of color by flooding your eyes with colored light.

Hear the robust, rhythmic heartbeat of a 48-hour-old zebrafish embryo.

This embryo carries a genetic mutation that causes its heart to beat abnormally.

Early embryo development in zebrafish.

Watch a live chick as it develops from a soup of cells into an embryo with a beating heart.

This blue light lets you see microscopic blood cells in your eye.

Use your heart rate to drive the beating of human heart cells.

Can this artificial hand feel like part of your body?

Confusing sensory information can be profoundly disturbing.

Go deep into the development of our Give Heart Cells a Beat exhibit.

Hear from practicing researchers about their daily work.

Find out about the fascinating proposition of studying sexual physiology.

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