Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

Human survival has always pushed the boundaries of what medicine and biology consider possible. There are documented cases where individuals have survived injuries so severe that, on paper, they ...

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme ...

Everyone gets hurt. Not everyone heals at the same rate, however—not because of inherent differences in genetic makeup and physiology but rather because of differences in behavior (as well as the type ...

When bones break and there is extreme tissue loss—such as after a car accident or a battlefield injury—current treatments don't often lead to effective healing. But certain stem cells from skeletal ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

This article was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. After a slip on the ice, a sports injury, even surgery, most people’s ...