For generations, medical students were taught that the map of the human body was essentially complete. Yet cancer imaging has ...

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

Over the past 150 years, researchers have seen the average human body temperature drop by more than half a degree Fahrenheit (-0.3 °C). In a new study from the University of Michigan, scientists ...

United Therapeutics Corporation uses strong cash flows to develop xenotransplanted organs and solve global supply shortages.

Scientists have uncovered a direct molecular mechanism by which gut bacteria inject proteins into human cells, reshaping immune responses and potentially driving inflammatory disease. Scientists have ...

Proteins circulating in the blood could accelerate the aging of blood vessels and increase silent cardiac risk.

There are millions of bacteria living in our guts. There are millions of dead bacteria there too. And scientists are learning just how much potential the dead ones have to improve our health ...

Despite existing in the food safety danger zone, the living human body does not go bad. Like in a tower defense game, our body is picking off invaders on multiple fronts at all times. The mitochondria ...