33.Since thumbs are so essential, if someone is born without one, one of their other fingers will usually be amputated and ...

Genetic mutation in mice . To figure out what this gene mutation does, the researchers used mice. They made mice that had the ...

The medical research on human subjects has to respect the ethical principles included in the Declaration of Helsinki and the additional constraints imposed ...

Gaza Four-month-old Youssef lies in a hospital bed in Gaza city. He weighs less than 1.5kg and his mother, Najiya Al Najjar, ...

Born without a brain and with severe deformities, baby Malak Ahmad Al-Qanou' came into the world at Al-Awda Hospital in ...

Double muscling is visually striking and the animals appear to be struggling with the burden of more that usual muscle.

Cupid's bow is one of several facial features which have been given Greek or Roman names. The cupid's bow is the curve in the middle of the upper lip. This is because in classical art, Cupid—the son ...

While this human-machine endeavour may have rattled many, machines have also been independently outperforming humans at games. For instance, IBM’s Deep Blue beat chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...

Lucid dreaming is a surreal phenomenon in which people are consciously aware that they are in a dream. Çağatay Demirel, from Donders Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Medical ...

BEIJING -Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on April 19, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21km course.

The dangers of human cloning were dramatically underlined yesterday. A review of all the world's cloned animals found clear evidence that they are at risk of a catalogue of abnormalities.

You may be able to lower your risk for developing heart rhythm abnormalities by speeding up your walking pace. That’s according to a large new study published Tuesday in the journal Heart ...