Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

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The amount of microplastics in the human brain appears to be increasing over time: Concentrations rose by roughly 50 percent ...

If the human body were just a blob made up of a singular type of cell, then perhaps there would be at least some element of ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

Research maintains that the natural limit for human lifespan is about 122 years, based on the fact that the longest-living ...

Nearly every disease has an inflammatory component, but blood tests can't pinpoint inflammation in specific organs or tissues in the human body. Now researchers have developed a method to detect ...

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the ...

The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to ...

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

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