Microplastics have been found everywhere in the human body, including blood, breast milk, testicles, heart tissue, lung ...

A significant development in the treatment of complicated brain tumors and other serious disorders affecting the base of the skull is skull-base neurosurgery. Compared to open surgery, this method ...

The method involves creating digital “endocasts” from the cranial spaces inside bird skulls, allowing them to estimate brain size and shape with remarkable accuracy. This approach is giving scientists ...

When babies are young, their skull bones haven’t fused (or grown together) yet. Because these bones are still malleable, a brain tumor could cause their head to grow in abnormal ways. If you notice a ...

A man with paralysis who had electrodes implanted in his brain can pilot a virtual drone through an obstacle course simply by imagining moving his fingers. His brain signals are interpreted by an ...

The team analyzed the shape of 113 skulls and 387 jaws, measuring their likely bite force. The Formby skulls were flatter than skulls from Scotland, and their jaws had muscle attachments closer to ...

By embedding threads containing electrodes within the human brain, the company’s device allows paralyzed patients to engage with digital devices through their thoughts. Arbaugh, for example ...

"It felt like my brain was coming out of my skull." Tom Shaw was 24 when he began suffering from extreme headaches. But as a self-employed person who had recently bought a house he felt he "couldn ...

“Even low-level exposure that people think is safe enough for public health is doing something at the brain level,” says Megan Herting, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern ...

However, as his symptoms worsened Mr Shaw, from Stafford, visited the doctors on seven occasions before he was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2007. Now 41, the tumour has gone but it has left ...

The brain tumor that he was born with left him with ... who used a 3D-printed skull and virtual reality to ensure the surgery could be completed. In our son’s case, the result was a clean ...