When modern humans arrived in New Guinea roughly 50,000 years ago, they met and mixed with the Denisovans, a now-extinct group of human ancestors who originated in Asia. But after that initial ...

People with MS often develop: vision problems movement and muscle problems changes in sensation Thyroid disease affects the butterfly-shaped gland at the front of your neck. Its primary role is to ...

Introduction: Radioactive iodine (RAI) is commonly used in the management of differentiated thyroid cancers (DTCs). However, the long-term efficacy and the risk of tumor recurrence associated with it ...

Different combinations of values can mean different things, and there is often more than one meaning. Thyroid tests are done to determine how well the thyroid gland is working. This gland, situated in ...

Submandibular glands are one of the sections of your anatomy that you probably give little thought to...until something goes wrong. When functioning properly, these glands work with other glands to ...

They were part of a pioneer population that eventually died out, making them a ‘lost branch’ of the human family tree. Zooarchaeologist Dr Geoff Smith studied more than a thousand bone fragments found ...

It turns out the LRJ people were part of the early human expansion from Africa to other parts of the world. But theirs was a surprisingly recent migration. The common ancestors of the LRJ people ...

Space architect Melodie Yasher has developed ingenious plans for using robots to 3D print the habitats, landing pads and everything needed for human life on Mars. Using robots means that these ...

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune condition that causes the thyroid gland to overproduce thyroid hormones. Treatment for Graves’ disease is relatively simple, but without it, the disease can ...

by careful examination of 1373 thyroid glands obtained at autopsy. They found that 8.2 per cent of these glands contained nodules, measuring 1 cm. or more in diameter, that, they believed ...

we investigated the effect of TGFβ ligands on the primary human sebocytes we established using a novel culture system and skin samples from pediatric donors.