Diagnostic tests for infectious diseases often involve identifying “alien” life – in the form of viral DNA – within a patient. Detecting life on Mars may also rely on DNA detection strategies but, ...

Also known as congenital hypertrichosis lanuginosa (CHL), the condition is present from birth and symptoms appear in early childhood. The disease results in dark, fine and soft hair growing all over ...

The condition became known as 'alien hand' because patients feel as though another entity (an alien) is controlling the hand and the hand is 'acting on its own.' Experts haven't determined a cause for ...