Polluted, noisy and crowded urban environments can impair physical performance. Living in modern cities may not be good for human health, according to evolutionary scientists from Loughborough ...

If a pig embryo infused with human cells truly became something close enough to count as a member of the human species, then ...

Michelle Spear does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Cancer causes of hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in the U.S. alone, but not all cancers are alike, and some organs ...

Age related decline in female fertility remains one of the most urgent challenges facing reproductive medicine today. The decline affects both the number and the quality of oocytes, which reduces chan ...

A team of doctors at NYU Langone transplanted a pig kidney into a brain-dead patient and reversed its rejection twice during the 61-day study. Joe Carrotta / NYU Langone Facing a shortage of organs ...

Reframing women’s health care includes a greater emphasis on health span, and a closer look at ovarian aging, according to an ...

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated “superorganisms” with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a ...

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, various diseases and even the origin of life.

Researchers are exploring whether oxygen can be delivered through the intestines to boost oxygen levels during emergency ...

A new scientific review challenges the widespread idea that certain physical features in women serve as biological signals of ...