Acute tubular necrosis is a kidney disorder that’s caused by damage to tubule cells. These cells are found in the kidney and normally filter out your waste products and fluids. The most common causes ...

In May, a flight from Spain to the Netherlands had to make an emergency landing because of the overpowering body odor of a man on board the plane. One month later, he died, and it was revealed that ...

Initially, cell death was believed to be either programmed, called “apoptosis”, or passive, called “necrosis”. Apoptosis was considered instrumental to development and other physiological functions, ...

While targeted radiation can be an effective treatment for brain tumours, subsequent potential necrosis of the treated areas can be hard to distinguish from the tumours on a standard MRI.

As mere mortals, we know all too well that to live is to die—and the very same can be said for the smallest structural units of our bodies. But in the microscopic world of our cells, not all forms of ...