Muscles fit together to form an exquisite mosaic within every human body. At least, that’s the impression readers may come away with after reading Berkeley author Bonnie Tsui’s “On Muscle: The Stuff ...

The process for identifying human remains is slow, low-tech and disorganized. A Michigan State University project aims to ...

When a medical examiner needs help identifying a deceased person and determining how that person died, they turn to forensic anthropologists.

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

Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...

Mutations fuel evolution while also causing diseases like cancer. Epigenome-targeted DNA repair can help organisms protect important genomic regions from mutation. However, the adaptive value, ...

Background Muscle wasting and weakness (sarcopenia) are commonly associated with COPD causing frailty and reduced quality of ...