Human beings don’t have a thick coat of fur like many other mammals do. Scientists think it has to do with something else ...

Microplastics and the much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in ...

Recognising the medical uses of this technology, Röntgen quickly took the world's first X-ray image of the human body. The legendary photograph was that of his wife's hand, which wore a ring ...

Still, cyanide is highly lethal and is toxic at certain doses. How does the human body regulate internal cyanide levels to prevent toxicity? An enzyme, rhodanese, plays a critical role in toxicity ...

A 52-year-old Florida woman was recently arrested after she knowingly bought and sold human bones online, police say. Kymberlee Anne Schopper of Deltona was charged with trading in human tissue ...

After a 15-month investigation into the dealing of human body parts, Kymberlee Schopper, 52, was arrested April 10 on a warrant at her India Boulevard home. She was charged with the purchase and ...

A body and human remains have been found inside several bags near a children's school. The horrifying discovery took place in Lewisham, South East London on Saturday, by a community team who were ...

The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead, and it “functioned very well in the human body” for 10 days, the researchers said. The blood flow to the organ was good ...

A 52-year-old Florida woman was recently arrested after she knowingly bought and sold human bones online, police say. Kymberlee Anne Schopper of Deltona was charged with trading in human tissue ...

On March 3, her attorney argued in court papers the charges should be dismissed because body parts are not legally property. “Human remains are not, and have never been, deemed to constitute ...

At the same time, we know much can be gained from studying the human body. We learn much from the bodies of the dead, which these days are used for teaching and research only with consent.