Modern comforts promise ease, yet a growing body of research suggests our bodies are still tuned for a very different world.

The development and eventual approval of modern drugs is hugely reliant on animal models and human clinical trials, but for some time now scientists have been working on an alternative and more ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy ...

The human body is a masterpiece of engineering. Beyond the common facts everyone knows, there are peculiar abilities, rare ...

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Hesperos, Inc., Founding Director of the NanoScience Technology Center, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, and Electrical Engineering at the University of Central ...

The human body is a wonderous thing, especially when you consider how intricate and efficient each bodily system is. For instance, an adult’s blood vessels could encircle the earth 2.5 times if ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Aging, a team of researchers used a large dataset consisting of participants of European ancestry from the United Kingdom (U.K.) Biobank to explore ...

The human body is a wonderful biological work of art, composed of a great many organs, each carrying out special functions that are part of life and well-being. Though the human body contains about 78 ...

Absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) are four main processes that demonstrate how a drug behaves after being administered. Therefore, ADME is key in defining a compound’s ...

An organ is a group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task in the body, such as digesting nutrients or producing chemical messengers that enable brain cells to communicate. Although ...