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When a medical examiner needs help identifying a deceased person and determining how that person died, they turn to forensic anthropologists.

Previous research detected the tiny particles in our brains, lungs, liver, kidneys and blood — plus in bodily fluids like semen and breast milk.

Scientists think the earliest mammals, which lived at the time of the dinosaurs, were quite hairy. But over hundreds of millions of years, a small handful of mammals, including humans, evolved to have ...

Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist whose first achievement was the discovery of lysozyme, which actually later led him to ...

The modern explosion in medical memoirs is often attributed to Henry Marsh, the neurosurgeon whose instant classic, Do No Harm, was published in 2014. Yet 5 years earlier, another British surgeon, ...

The ossicles are part of the auditory system and are the smallest bones in the human body. The malleus is the largest and the outermost of these bones. Together, the three bones make up an area no ...

The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from the heart ... University of Florida Health. Aorta Anatomy. Wang X, Carpenter H, Ghayesh M, et al. A review on the ...

THE third part of Professor Walmsley's “Manual of Practical Anatomy “is devoted to the dissection of the head and neck, for which a period of about ten weeks is suggested. The usual order of ...

Human beings can act as a good energy source, from a single heartbeat to every tiny movement or activity of the human body. With bioelectronics and wearable device advancements, energy production from ...

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