People's bodies can be old or young for their chronological age, depending, in part, on the amount and types of stressors ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food ...

The need for new fast classification methods has become increasingly important. When a patient arrives at a medical center ...

A high-resolution spatial map of the human hypothalamus makes it possible to identify specific cells, determine their exact ...

RNA-based medicines are one of the most promising ways to fight human disease, as demonstrated by the recent successes of RNA vaccines and double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) therapies. But while health care ...

Most animals, including humans, have bilateral symmetry, which means our bodies are pretty symmetrical. At least on the ...

Innovative muscle patches derived from stem cells demonstrate efficacy in heart repair, improving function in primates and a ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

Red blood cells are the most common cells in human blood. They contain a protein called hemoglobin, which is responsible for carrying oxygen from your lungs to the rest of your body. The body ...

But a new study hints that maybe we aren’t so special. A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo erectus thrived in a harsh desert ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...