When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses about the answer to this question.

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Cedric Lodge, and his wife, Denise Lodge, stole and sold donated human remains intended for medical research and teaching, ...

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The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

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Brain organoids can be a good step forward, assuming they are grown from induced human pluripotent stem cells. That allows us to sidestep ethical concerns about the use of human embryos, thereby ...