Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

Volunteers were infected with the COVID virus in order to ascertain whether there were cognitive effects of infection. It represented the failure of safeguards against unethical experiments. The ...

A new report finds over 74,000 people enrolled in experiments have been affected by the National Institutes of Health’s ...

A new active substance attacks a key protein in tumor cells, leading to complete degradation. In cell experiments, this ...

A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research? Forced medical ...

Scientists in Japan are exploring a novel way to deliver oxygen through the gut. This method, called enteral ventilation, ...

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an insufficient production of the hormone insulin by cells in the pancreas called beta cells and ...

Upon learning of the horrific experiments, a group to which I belonged sued the agency in federal court to stop them. The documents filed by EPA in response to our lawsuit revealed some shocking facts ...

"Earlier versions of the chapters in this volume were first given as contributions to a workshop on human experimentation held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London on 3-4 ...

A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team ...

Some of the best horror films are inspired by true events. Take, for example, 1974’s blockbuster hit “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” which was based on the life and crimes of killer Ed Gein in the ...