Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has turned his daughter’s devastating medical crisis into an extraordinary test of an experimental therapy, after doctors transferred mitochondria from her leg muscle to her eyes in an unprecedented attempt to restore her sight. Ackman’s 26-year-old
For more than a century, the idea of replacing a failing human organ with one taken from an animal has hovered between medical ambition
A genetically modified pig kidney functioned in a human patient for 271 days before being removed and replaced with a human donor organ, marking
Ancient human retrovirus DNA could be one of the markers of susceptibility to mental illness—specifically schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, a new study suggests. An international team of researchers examined
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