Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have just given a brand-new definition of when adulthood actually begins - and ...

We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of ...

For decades, biologists treated a familiar marine invertebrate as a kind of living afterthought, a translucent tube that ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and a key Catholic bioethics group are both warning of a potential rewriting of U.S. law to broaden the definition of brain death, a revision ...

In most developed nations, once your brain stops functioning, you are considered “brain dead,” and “brain dead” means dead, even if your heart is still beating and a ventilator keeps your lungs going.

People with Parkinson's disease and their doctors confront many unknowns, including the answer to exactly how deep brain stimulation (DBS) relieves some of the motor symptoms patients experience. In a ...

(RNS) — Trust in secular U.S. health care institutions has been in free fall. In 2022, Gallup found that only 38% had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in our medical system. Back in 1968, ...

By the usual logic of evolution, menopause shouldn’t really exist. Even our closest relatives, chimpanzees, experience it ...

Bilal Arshadullah is a biology major and biotechnology minor and a 2023-24 health care ethics intern with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are his own. In 2013, ...