Hormones coordinate different body functions by carrying messages through the bloodstream to target cells and tissues. Hormonal imbalances occur through inadequate or excess hormone synthesis, which ...
Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She ...
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By studying what other creatures can already achieve, researchers hope to uncover breakthroughs in human medicine and turn ...
Micronutrients, vitamins and minerals that are part of the human diet in small amounts, may have influenced human evolution ...
Doctors just blurred the line between species with a radical transplant. Could this be the key to immortality?
Federal prosecutors have charged seven people in an alleged nationwide network that trafficked stolen human body parts and remains taken from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary—a "heinous ...
An Amityville man repeatedly stabbed a Yonkers couple to death before his girlfriend beat one of them with a meat tenderizer and they chopped up their bodies and scattered the remains following a ...