Each Monday, this column has turned a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. This is the last article in the series. Just ...

The whole gang was there - the pioneers who were among the first test tube babies to be conceived 25 years ago, the kids who came from frozen embryos, and the fraternal twins separated in the lab and ...

40 years ago, on July 25, 1978, Louise Brown became the world's first "test-tube baby." Newsweek featured the remarkable infant on its cover the following week and published a long piece about the ...

Though they abound in detective fiction, police toxicologists are rare in the U. S. When the police of almost any big city want to know what poison was used or what drug taken in a puzzling crime, ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have finally recreated the initial steps of HIV infection in a test tube, offering an ...

The man whose research led to the world's first test-tube baby more than three decades ago, has died at age 87. Robert Edwards, who later won the Nobel Prize, began experimenting with in vitro ...

The human eye, says Biology Professor George Wald of Harvard, is like a camera, with a slow film for bright light and a fast film for dim light. At a Cleveland meeting of the Society of Biological ...

Hate to burst your bubble, glass lab gear. But plastic bubble wrap also works pretty well at running science experiments. Scientists at Harvard University have figured out a way to use these petite ...