Doctors at PGI successfully performed complex brain surgery on Sunil Kumar, a 7-foot-7-inch man with gigantism, a rare growth ...

Gigantism is a condition involving an overproduction of growth hormone (GH) before the age of puberty. Children and adolescents with this condition are atypically tall compared with children of ...

Gigantism and acromegaly are growth disorders that result from excess amounts of growth hormone in the body. The conditions are similar but have several differences. Growth hormone is one of the ...

How did these magnificent marine mammals get so big? A new study explored the genetic underpinnings of gigantism in whales, identifying four genes that appear to have played crucial roles.

Not by accident, some of the genes whose activity characterizes gigantism in cetaceans are also tumor suppressors. Parts of other mammals' genomes also play this role, offsetting the influence of ...

To the Editor: I read with great interest the paper by Sotos et al., entitled "Cerebral Gigantism in Childhood," which appeared in the July 16 issue of the Journal. For the past year I have been ...

In the deepest, darkest (and for many people scariest) parts of the ocean, you’ll find an incredible array of creatures that are weird, wonderful, and wildly large. Why do some deep-sea ...

Jayson suffers from something known as gigantism, which is a 'condition where there is a small growth on his pituitary gland that allows for constant release of growth hormone.' When he was born ...

Otodontidae), and new evolutionary insights into its gigantism, life history strategies, ecology, and extinction, Palaeontologia Electronica (2025). DOI: 10.26879/1502 ...