Docs removed two of my organs before figuring out what was wrong with me
A 35-year-old woman says doctors ignored her crippling pain for 15 years and removed two of her organs…
Fossil Evidence Pushes Back Origin of Live Birth by 90 Million Years
Paleontologists studying a 236-million-year-old cynodont fossil from Argentina say they have found the earliest evidence yet of viviparity…
Spit test could shrink years-long wait for diagnosis that affects 190M women
The wait may finally be over for millions of women. A new test which uses a saliva sample…
Infuriating thing ovaries may start doing after menopause
It’s not called “The Big Change” for nothing. When menopause strikes, changes come in many shapes and forms,…
Men with devastating condition more likely to have colorectal, thyroid cancers
Not your daddy’s cancer scare. Male cancer cases are rising at a staggering rate, with 19 million men…
‘Cosmic child’ seems distant as human sperm show 50% navigation decline in space test
Scientists have carried out an unusual test to determine whether a child could be conceived in space. The…
What is the ‘nocebo effect’ — and why is it making women stop birth control?
When a teen girl recently posted on TikTok about the “pros and cons of birth control,” almost 120,000…
Parents might age faster or slower based on how many kids they have
Numerous factors affect how fast we age, from the environment down to our DNA. Even the number of…
Common IVF test misses some genetic abnormalities in embryos
Coloured light micrograph of a human embryo after in vitro fertilisation ZEPHYR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY During in vitro fertilisation…
Neanderthal-human hybrids may have been scourged by a genetic mismatch
A model of a Neanderthal woman Joe McNally/Getty Modern humans may indeed have wiped out Neanderthals – but…
Why Older Fathers Pass on More Harmful Mutations to Their Kids
Summary: Groundbreaking research has revealed that as men age, harmful genetic mutations in sperm not only accumulate but…
Scientists Made Human Eggs From Skin Cells and Used Them to Form Embryos
Mitinori Saitou at Kyoto University first documented in 2018 how his team turned human blood cells into stem…