Health Canada encourages individuals to send in their complaints about health products to the Regulatory Operations and Enforcement Branch (ROEB). ROEB manages health product complaints on a priority ...

Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell.

Starting one's sex life and having children at a young age can run in the family. But can pregnancy have beneficial health ...

Abstract: Despite the significant number of studies published on the measurements of complex permittivity of biological tissues in the last thirty years, implementing a successful measurement program ...

A master clock made up of the proteins MYRF-1 and LIN-42 coordinates the timing and duration of gene expression pulses through each stage of development in the worm C. elegans. The clock ensures that ...

A carbon atom can form four single bonds. Graphic: Carbon with four bonds in 3D. In three dimensions, these four bonds are arranged tetrahedrally. Graphic: Tetrahedral bond arrangement. Which means ...

HOW EASILY could a malicious person with no scientific expertise and an axe to grind create and spread a nasty pathogen? The bar is constantly being lowered. Advances in genetic sequencing have made ...

The wear-and-tear theory of aging says bodies wear out due to use, causing them to stop working properly. This theory falls under "error theories," suggesting aging ...

In recent months, artificial intelligence has been in the news for the wrong reasons: use of deepfakes to scam people, AI systems used to manipulate cyberattacks, and chatbots encouraging suicides, ...

Silicon-based artificial intelligence has come a very long way in a very short space of time, driving massive advances in the large language models that sit at the heart of today’s generative AI ...

When I first started writing about ageing years ago, there was a buzz around something called biological clocks, also known as ageing clocks or “true age” measurements. In principle, these are quite ...

The word 'dementia' describes a set of symptoms that over time can affect memory, problem-solving, language and behaviour. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. Dementia is a group ...