I was a human experiment. It sounds a bit morbid in a B-movie sort of way, but by signing up to become part of a test panel to examine the herb ginko bilboa's effectiveness for memory enhancement, I ...

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

A record of scientific ambition at its worst and best, where progress, power and ethics collided and changed global rules forever.

The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

Punch, a monkey that went viral after he was abandoned by his mother in a Japanese zoo, is reminiscent of a foundational ...

President Trump is trying to save money by terminating leases on facilities used by federal agencies. One of these is EPA’s Human Studies Facility located at the University of North Carolina-Chapel ...

Imagine standing at the laboratory bench, working on an experiment, when, as you finish one step, a display on the inside of ...

Human head transplants are also known as cephalosomatic anastomosis, and at the moment, are not actually possible and likely won't be before 2030. Some researchers have tested a human head transplant ...