Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying ...

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David Brinley, professor of art and design, noticed her interest in form and attention to detail, and he told López about ...

The researchers say weight training can protect the brain against dementia on two fronts: by stimulating the production of ...

OU’s medical school had worked with other schools like the University of Toledo to secure cadavers since it opened in 2011.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have harnessed the internal circadian clock of the body to deliver medication for an ...

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

This new piece of the body’s immune defense could open new pathways to improved antibiotics and other medicinal therapies.

In a morgue on Gravier Street in New Orleans, bodies stored in freezers at LSU Health Sciences Center have a big job ahead of ...