The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.

Between the end of Roman antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages, laws appeared in both the Codex Theosianus and the ...

She started with growing blood vessels in the lab from just ... “Every time you put a foreign body in the human body, the chance of infection goes up. Bacteria love to sit on the foreign body ...

If astronauts could slow their metabolic rate drastically, they could potentially “sleep” through long voyages between the ...

Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the blood-brain barrier.

Yet, for all its aesthetic and expressive potency, the neck is also a site of fear and deep vulnerability. Villains and ...

In animal studies, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have found a possible mechanism for how the artificial sweetener ...

I've always been very polite to my Alexa, ya know, just in case. "All monsters are human" was a poignant line delivered by Jessica Lange in "American Horror Story: Season 2" that sums up my takeaways ...

A new international study led by scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has characterized the populations of fat ...

A statue of the Virgin Mary has been the unlikely recipient of a DNA swab, after it appeared to be weeping blood. Results from the test make a miracle appear unlikely, and a criminal case against its ...