Most of us rely heavily on shipping services like FedEx or UPS to ensure we receive the correct packages. If that system was ...

Data from 300,000 births reveal how essential biological measurements are altered by carrying and delivering a baby ...

One of the main arguments made for bodyoids is that they could provide spare human organs. There’s a huge shortage of organs ...

Women have a higher proportion of key immune cells between puberty and menopause, which may be linked to the sex hormone estrogen and explain why they are less susceptible to certain infectious ...

Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by an extra chromosome 21, affecting brain and body development. It leads to ...

Human biology is not black and white. Although newborns are typically categorized as male or female at birth based on visible ...

It is a genetic condition caused when an unusual cell division result in an extra full or even partial copy of chromosome 21.

Researchers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease—aortic valve stenosis—progresses differently in males and females. The research paves the way for treatments that can be tailored ...

Scientists discover that women's second X chromosome awakens later in life, expressing genes that protect the brain from ...

After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...

In recent years, updates in 3D printing technologies have allowed medical researchers to print things that were not possible to make using the previous version of this technology, including food ...

Why do women live longer than men? Image Source: Shutterstock / Gorodenkoff For years, the fact that women tend to outlive men has been a topic of interest and speculation among scientists and the ...