A virologist named Beata Halassy recently made headlines after publishing a report of successfully treating her own breast ...

A scientist who managed to treat her breast cancer by injecting her tumor with viruses grown in a lab has ignited a debate regarding the ethics of self-experimentation. Beata Halassy discovered in ...

A hand wearing a latex glove holds a small clear tube and dips a cotton swab into the liquid. Space for copy. When Beata Halassy learned in summer 2020 that her breast cancer had come back, she made a ...

According to one study, during just the past 200 years, there have been 465 cases of self-experimentation documented in the medical literature, with eight recorded deaths. Most instances occurred in ...

Science presenter and journalist Dr Michael Mosley was well known not only for his expertise, energy and passion as a broadcaster but also for trialling experiments on himself. From swallowing ...