A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research? Forced medical ...

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein served as a chilling prophecy of the ethical dilemmas that science could pose. From ...

"Earlier versions of the chapters in this volume were first given as contributions to a workshop on human experimentation held at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London on 3-4 ...

The notion of human medical experimentation elicits visceral repulsion. Nevertheless, we allow such research for the betterment of society, but only with safeguards to protect the volunteers. These ...

Our body's "blood factory" consists of specialized tissue made up of bone cells, blood vessels, nerves and other cell types.

During the first half of the 20th century, Europeans were subjected to extreme human brutality. Millions of people were killed in the first World War, millions of people were killed by communists ...

Scientists in Japan are exploring a novel way to deliver oxygen through the gut. This method, called enteral ventilation, involves introducing oxygen- ...

Polaris Dawn, the first of the Polaris Program’s three human spaceflight missions, announced today the extensive suite of science and research experiments the crew and SpaceX will conduct throughout ...