The first person in the world to have a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig was David Bennett. The operation ...

Many drug trials are vetted by companies with ties to the drugmakers, raising concerns about conflicts of interest and ...

Medics have transplanted a pig liver into a human in a world first. The patient, a 71-year-old man, lived for almost half a ...

Brain organoids, miniature human brains grown in a lab, can be used by scientists for experiments but some people are ...

It sounds like pure science fiction. Remove a healthy human head from a dying body, connect it to a different healthy body, and bring "the person" back to consciousness. Equal parts Frankenstein and ...

Animal rights advocates want to know why the National Institutes of Health quietly approved millions in new funding for ...

This course explores the history of the scientific study of the human body from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. It examines the ways in which different communities sought to study, control, ...

AI-generated videos of deceased celebrities trigger backlash. Zelda Williams calls AI clips of her father “gross,” while a ...

That's the promise behind Tilly Norwood, a fully AI-generated "actress" currently being courted by Hollywood's top talent ...

It may sound like an Alex Jones fever dream, but there are real academics proposing to deliberately infect people with a tick ...