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The same type of antibodies that cause illnesses like multiple sclerosis and lupus may also lead to a longer life.

It pushes back the date of the earliest known cancer in a human ancestor by more than a million years.

Scientists found that malaria-carrying mosquitoes avoided chickens and the smell of chickens, which might make the birds (or even just their odor) an effective repellent.

When the AI's interpretation was combined with human assessments, the cancer detection accuracy rate approached 100 percent.

A recent report found health or safety violations in 80 percent of inspected facilities in five states.

The history of canine transmissible venereal tumor is a weird one.

These cells are being studied and developed in numerous labs around the world to create human tissue and potentially treat a variety of human diseases and illnesses.

The ravages of "phossy jaw"—necrosis of the jaw bone caused by phosphorus poisoning—may have been discovered in a young teenager's remains.

Oncologist Katie Deming was determined to make radiation treatment less painful.

Little craters on dinosaur bones aren’t necessarily battle scars from a death match.

Scientists say parasitic worms in the guts of Vikings may have made their modern descendants more vulnerable to lung issues.

It appears that the risk of dementia is actually decreasing in the U.S.—and one of the biggest contributing factors may be an increasingly educated population.