Researchers reveal that the guinea pig pre-implantation embryo is very similar to the human embryo, spurring a better understanding of infertility and early human development.

The Suffolk books bound in human skin The story of the 1827 murder in Polstead, Suffolk, shocked Georgian Britain. Since then, it has been the subject of many films, books, plays and folk songs.

Covering books in human skin is known as anthropodermic bibliopegy. Books were often created in the 19th Century to punish executed prisoners or by doctors who wanted a keepsake. Deary ...

A study by researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center published in Nature revises the standard story about transcription factors ...

In his newly published The Social Conquest of the Earth—the 27th book from this two-time winner ... dominance not only of ants, but of human beings, too. Ants rule the microhabitats they occupy ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain ... Sunscreen, Clothes and Caves May Have Helped ...

The researchers analyzed changes to gene expression in ecDNA formed by HPV and human DNA hybridization in oropharyngeal tumor ...

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