HONG KONG — “Rigor Mortis,” a vampire horror tale that marks the directorial debut of Hong Kong singer and actor Juno Mak, is scaring up business ahead of a high profile fall premiere. The ...

When you're dead, you stiffen up. We all know this. But why? What is the process that goes on, inside a dead body, that causes muscle tissue to contract ...

Humans usually experience rigor mortis – the stiffening of the body – hours after they have died. But that doesn’t seem to be the case with all organisms. "Cell death has been widely studied ...

Usually rigor mortis establishes throughout the body in 12 hours, stays in the body for another12 hours and disappears in the next 12 hours. DR.R.SUDHA & DR.K.A.R.REDDY, ...

Owenby was pronounced dead in his cell at 3:41 a.m. EMS workers said he had rigor mortis. Williams said he asked Harrison, the pathologist, if failure to provide the sick call caused the death.