In the 16th century, when the study of human anatomy was still in its infancy, curious onlookers would gather in anatomical theaters to catch of a glimpse of public dissections of the dead. In the ...

In our new BBC Radio 4 series, The Human Subject, we tell the stories of the most important medical experiments that you’ve never heard of. As a criminal psychologist, I want to understand the ...

Scientific experiments have yielded the Theory of Relativity, the transistor, the computer and lots of other Space Age goodies. Think what it might yield when applied to human beings. Numerous ...

Japan's government approved a request by scientists to conduct stem-cell experiments to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. Japan's science ministry last week gave ...