Throughout the world, laws governing how terminally ill patients can choose to die vary widely.

In six states and the District of Columbia, terminally ill patients can get a perscription for a life-ending drug, and several additional states are considering legalizing the practice.

A fraught market for the barbiturates prescribed to terminally ill patients who choose to end their lives has physicians turning to options outside big pharma.

Five groups of scientists criticize a widely publicized Nature paper from 2016 suggesting that humans can only live up to 115 years.

Genes linked to embryonic development, stress, and cancer are increasingly transcribed into RNA after these animals die.

The facility—the first of its kind in Europe—will help researchers study what happens to decomposing bodies.

Juno Therapeutics asks the US Food and Drug Administration for permission to restart the CAR-T experiments without chemotherapy.

Understanding postmortem gene expression could help researchers improve organ transplants and time-of-death estimates, according to studies on mice and zebrafish.

A spate of howler monkey deaths in Nicaragua, Panama, and Ecuador has researchers scrambling to identify the cause.

What's killing howler monkeys in the jungles of Central America?