Research in recent years has shown that the human appendix has lymphoid cells, which help the body fight infections. This strongly suggests that the appendix plays a role in the immune system.

Professor Levin directs both the Allen Discovery Center and the Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology at Tufts University in Massachusetts. His lab is unusual for the field of biology, a ...

A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China.

Scientists discovered that the brainless sea anemone build their bodies with a technique common in bilaterians... which is what humans are.

In China, researchers studying the burial site of one of the world's most well-preserved mummies also unearthed what's ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...