Perhaps our most defining characteristic as a species, the six-layered human cortex, hosts billions of neural connections that bestow Homo sapiens with higher-order thinking. But how does this ...

Meanwhile, biotech entrepreneur and scientist professor Sir Chris Evans has announced the development of two other tests, one for prostate cancer and another for testicular cancer. As founder and ...

The involvement of kidney in glucose regulation involves three different pathways: glucose release from renal cortex via gluconeogenesis; glucose uptake and glycolysis from renal medulla for ...

Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the chemical in cannabis that makes people feel “high.” Tests can detect THC in the body for several days or even weeks. The length of time this chemical stays in ...

It may seem unfathomable, but a sliver of cerebral cortex no larger than a grain of sand now serves as the most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain ever constructed. The dataset, known as ...

Although the average age for a male to get testicular cancer is 33 years old, it makes up about 4% of cancers in children and teenagers. Although it is rare for testicular cancer to occur before ...

Doctors do not yet know what causes testicular cancer. But we know some of the risk factors that may increase the chances of developing it. The testicles develop inside the tummy (abdomen) of an ...

At age 27, Bryan Tuccillo, a Virginia resident with Leigh syndrome, was diagnosed with testicular cancer that had spread to lymph nodes in his abdomen, chest and neck. When the cancer did not ...