human body
Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.
CRISPR study helps answer a question that has long puzzled scientists.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn’t make them the behavioral playbook.
After listening to the same playlist, people from the United Kingdom, the United States, and China reported feeling nearly identical bodily sensations.
Its creators hope the technology will help people meaningfully connect with the external world.
Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis
They call it “Judo T-cell therapy,” and it’s 100 times more potent than regular CAR-T cells.
Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.
We don’t yet know if these strange “obelisks” are helpful or harmful.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
Britain is profiling the genes, health and lifestyles of its citizens and handing the results to scientists across the world.
If you eat a diet full of refined grains, high-sugar drinks, and sweets, there’s a good chance you have too much insulin.
Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.
Placebo treatments don’t always need to be given deceptively to have positive effects.
Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.
Western societies seem to be getting inflammation achingly wrong.
Could subfertility be an under-explored factor in autism risk?
The first-of-its-kind map, which goes all the way down to the level of a single cell, could help prevent common birth defects.
The bots started as windpipe cells, yet they helped nerve cells repair and grow.
With any occupation comes a risk of health and safety hazards. When it comes to being Santa Claus, the challenges are unique.
The aging brain is networked differently.
Even before birth, our brains are taking note of the languages we hear.
The study is a solid step toward developing gene therapies against neurodevelopmental disorders.
Some neuroscientists question whether the body can “keep score” of anything in a meaningful way.
Stem cells from a fetus can live within the mother for decades — and help her heal.
“Less is better” is not a catchy marketing slogan, but one doctor who didn’t shower for five years thinks there’s a lot of truth to it.
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
Acclaimed psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of “The Body Keeps The Score,” discusses the widespread existence of trauma and how it settles in our bodies.
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