The immune system acts as a critical sentinel of organismal aging, integrating the sensing of physiological states with the ...

A comprehensive encyclopedia of the known functions of all protein-coding human genes has just been completed and released. Researchers used large-scale evolutionary modeling to integrate data on ...

If scientists could shrink themselves to microscopic size and take a journey through the human body—like the submarine crew ...

Their findings, recently reported in the journal Nature, overturn longstanding assumptions in developmental biology and could ...

Hormones coordinate different body functions by carrying messages through the bloodstream to target cells and tissues. Hormonal imbalances occur through inadequate or excess hormone synthesis, which ...

Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral network begins to take shape ...