Doctors gave the 31-year-old just five years to live and he’s now in a clinical trial to try and prolong his life Tom and his wife Vicky are now planning to start IVF in hopes of him experiencing ...

From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, modern organ transplantation has often been linked to the horrors of ...

Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo ...

Since then, Karl Rössler, a neurosurgeon at the Medical University of Vienna, has been sending small spoonfuls of live human brain tissue—removed during epilepsy surgeries—to Watson, a postdoctoral ...

There’s a lot to love about brains. They are arguably the most complex organ in the entire human body. 86 billion neurons send electrical and chemical signals back and forth within your brain to ...

Neuroscience has proven that our brains has a hidden "sixth sense" that helps us to adapt to seeing the world without sight ...

Every year, around 15 million babies worldwide are born before 37 weeks of gestation. Being born preterm can disrupt development, and earlier births increase the risk of life-changing health outcomes.

Researchers have discovered that parts of the human brain age more slowly than previously thought—particularly in the region that processes touch. By using ultra-high-resolution brain scans, they ...