Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Stanford scientists have solved a long-standing challenge in growing brain organoids by using a simple food additive to keep ...

Scientists that won an infamous 2024 IgNobel Prize for "discovering that many mammals are capable of breathing through their ...

In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...

Scientists have developed functional eggs from ordinary human skin cells, a proof of concept that could open up new ways to ...

Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton ...

A new human liver organoid microarray developed by Cincinnati Children’s and Roche recreates immune-driven liver injury in ...

NASA has selected Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen as the crew for the Artemis 2 mission. They are scheduled to launch no ...

The embryos weren’t used to try to establish a pregnancy, but the researchers behind the technique say it could one day be ...

More work needs to be done to create viable human embryos, but the method might someday be used in IVF to help infertile people and male couples.

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...