Human fetal tissue research has helped in the development of some vaccines.

Human experimentation made many modern medical advances possible—but history shows what happens when ethics are ignored. Across wars, regimes, and institutions, people were subjected to cruel and ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

Thanks to Mary Shelly, the author of Frankenstein, the literary world has an incomparable Gothic horror story. In today’s world, Dr. Frankenstein would have needed to go through an Institutional ...

Some human research will no longer be classified as a clinical trial, easing the paperwork burden, but not everyone agrees with the approach.

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health ...

A newly published research paper outlines a method designed to reduce the delay between a user’s request and a spoken ...

In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrate for the first time that apes can ...

A new study published in Scientific Reports provides a detailed model of how the human brain develops during the transition ...

Humans have lived with fire for over a million years. Scientists now say burn injuries may have influenced human evolution and healing.