Every person walking the planet carries roughly 37 trillion cells, and nearly every one of those cells holds an identical ...

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Scientists have found that smoking weed does not lower testosterone levels in young men - in fact, it appears to do the opposite. A study by the University of Geneva, conducted in collaboration with ...

Scientists say they’ve discovered that flu viruses hijack our cells in different ways, opening up new possibilities for ...

A miniaturized, biomimetic model of the human intestine has successfully reproduced long-term enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) ...

Stanford scientists have discovered a new type of immune cell that kills surrounding cells via explosion—a cellular ...

Synthetic human embryo. Credit: lunar caustic / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 China launched the world’s first experiment involving human artificial embryos in space this month, marking a significant ...

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The human body may seem finely engineered, but many of its most familiar features reveal a history of evolutionary compromise rather than perfect design. Credit: Shutterstock The human body evolved ...

Some discoveries change the way we view the human body. In 2021, researchers described what they saw when they had examined skin-biopsy samples that included tattoos: The ink particles had traveled ...

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Carley Millhone is a writer and editor based in the Midwest who covers health, women's wellness, and travel. Her work has appeared in publications like SELF, Greatist, and PureWow. Body lotion ...