These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

Rowan University biology professor Natasha Shylo is exploring left-right asymmetry development with a grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers have built a realistic human mini spinal cord in the lab and used it to simulate traumatic injury. The model reproduced key damage seen in real spinal cord injuries, including inflammation ...

Space is full of radiation, which is bad for both babies and non-babies alike, but we also have to worry about how microgravity affects the human body, too.

Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

Surrogacy will only grow in popularity as maternal age continues to climb and priorities shift. That makes it all the more important to talk about the downsides to what is so often presented as an ...

As space travel expands, scientists warn that reproductive health risks and ethical gaps can no longer be ignored.

As space tourism gets cheaper and missions keep getting longer, scientists are now raising a question that used to be limited ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle ...

Radiation and microgravity are two of the greatest hazards to astronauts’ reproductive health. “Space radiation can damage ...