The upper body is the most common site of infection ... that is most commonly caused by the Coxsackie A16 virus and human enterovirus 71. Meningoencephalitis and myocarditis are rare complications ...

VZV causes chickenpox (varicella), after which the virus becomes latent in cranial nerve, dorsal root and autonomic nervous system ganglia along the entire neuraxis. Decades later, a declining VZV ...

A new human skin atlas and skin organoid could revolutionize treatments for skin disorders and enhance regenerative medicine ...

Researchers have created the first blueprint of the human spliceosome, the most complex and intricate molecular machine in human biology. The vast majority of human genes -- more than nine in ten -- ...

Recent research identifies 16 human nerve cell types, revealing complex sensory responses and challenging traditional views on nerve specificity. In a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, ...

No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by scientists in a new study on the human sense of touch.

Michael Black, a renowned AI researcher, had been working on human body modeling for years. His experience ranged from the first AI boom in the mid-1980s to groundbreaking work at Xerox PARC and ...

Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii ... “But we didn’t really know it from the body cast themselves. Now we do, and ...

The headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) in London, UK, is a building that is designed to ...

Thanasis Zovoilis/GettyImages The idea of increased longevity has become a hot topic in recent decades, with some anti-aging proponents speculating the human body could have the capacity to live ...

But in that short time, we’ve discovered about two dozen species of human ancestors in Europe, Africa, and Asia—which you can see mapped out in the infographic below. The first known fossils ...

On November 24, 1974, Johanson was out prospecting for fossils of human ancestors with his graduate student Tom Gray, eyes trained on the ground, when he spotted a piece of elbow with humanlike ...