Spaceflight rewires the human body. Muscles shrink, bones thin and fluids shift towards the brain – but these changes may ...

It wasn’t a typical anatomy lab. The small group of people gathered around a table at Southwest Minnesota State University ...

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The human body relies on precise genetic instructions to function, and cancer begins when these instructions get scrambled.

Scientists are studying molecular changes in dogs' blood to understand human aging. Research reveals that nearly 40% of ...

Plenty of useful facts are taught in biology classes − from the nutrients necessary for the human body to the mechanisms that ...

NIH invests $14.2 million to map interoception, the body’s hidden sixth sense, revealing how the brain monitors vital ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

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Scientists found a virus-like living entity in human bodies named "obelisks" - small loops of RNA, each a thousand genetic ...

Even the most elite endurance athletes can’t outrun biology. A new study finds that humans hit a metabolic ceiling at about 2.5 times their resting energy burn. When ultra-runners take on races that ...

Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune ...