Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

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The human brain is a greedy organ. It gulps energy, demands constant upkeep, and somehow grew far larger (relative to body ...

Folic acid, also known as vitamin B9, is an important B-vitamin with many vital functions in the human body. It was ...

Aidan Burn receives funding from the National Cancer Institute. HERVs, or human endogenous retroviruses, make up around 8% of the human genome, left behind as a result of infections that humanity’s ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These phases are separated by sudden turning points that mark big shifts in how ...

The average adult male has around 36 trillion cells in their body, while average adult females have 28 trillion, researchers have found. Unexpectedly, the mass of small cells in our bodies, such as ...

Where do we come from and how did we evolve into the beings and bodies we are today? The new book "Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution" argues for a better ...