Tonsils are two oval pads of tissues that are on either side of the throat and project out into it. The uvula is what we see dangling down from the soft palate between the tonsils. They are very ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is adopting a new initiative to expand innovative, human-based science while reducing animal use in research. Developing and using cutting-edge alternative ...

Grants will now be awarded to trials conducted with real-world data, AI-driven simulation, or lab-grown human organoid-tech ...

Our objectives are to review the epidemiology of these injuries, as well as ACL biomechanics, anatomy, and nonsurgical ... the selection of the graft tissue, graft placement, and whether to ...

The American Red Cross encourages the public to schedule their May donation appointment before summer gets into full swing.

The only remaining autonomous 'jumping gene' can only attach to, and stitch a copy of itself into, DNA when it builds up into large clusters and only as cells divide.

Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Surprisingly, the protein shortage ...

Diseases of the muscles are numerous. Sadly, most of them are distressing, and in some cases life-threatening. Muscles ...

I am 66 years old and an avid cyclist. Last winter, after we went for a long ride, I suddenly felt lightheaded and then fainted. My doctor ordered ...

Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies.

We all get to the point in our lives where roles change. We start looking more and more like our parents, not only in our ...

Failure of a gene-reading quality-control mechanism called Integrator leaves cells littered with abnormal RNA strands that ...