Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

Dr Wouter Vogel, radiation oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, explained that the reason the glands have gone ...

Learn how human healing compares to healing in other primates and mammals, whose fur may help their skin stitch itself ...

A team of evolutionary scientists, dermatologists and wildlife specialists affiliated with several institutions in Japan, ...

People take two to three times as long to heal from wounds as other mammals, a team of biologists reported Tuesday in the ...

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we ...

Our slow healing may be a result of an evolutionary trade-off we made long ago, when we shed fur in favor of naked, sweaty skin that keeps us cool.

In industry, the detection of anomalies such as scratches, dents, and discolorations is crucial to ensure product quality and ...

Easy replication in cattle mammary glands means H5N1 bird flu is under no evolutionary pressure to adapt to spread easily in humans.

Researchers used advanced techniques to study neurons from patients and mice, including growing human neural organoids ... like the adrenal gland and intestine, but until now, the protein has ...

Human beings don’t have a thick coat of fur like many other mammals do. Scientists think it has to do with something else ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up radioactive contamination near St. Louis since the 1990s, but their efforts ...