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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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People with higher immune resilience live longer, resist diseases, and are more likely to survive diseases when they do develop.
It could prevent sun damage and help chemical burns heal faster.
In December 2022, a company called BioAge Labs published findings on a drug that worked to prevent muscular atrophy, or the loss of muscle strength and mass, in older people.
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.
Morning, afternoon, or night: When is the best time to exercise? Scientists have extensively studied this question. Here's what they found.
A new hypothesis accuses the simple sugar of wrecking energy metabolism.
Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion. But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.
Survey data suggests that our bodily perceptions of love extend far beyond the heart.
"Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, and Knox the man who buys the beef." Read the story of 19th-century Scotland's corpse dealers.
A new study provides the first proof-of-principle that genetic material transferred from one species to another can increase both longevity and healthspan in the recipient animal.
The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
Since the 1980s, engineered monoclonal antibodies have been knocking out invading germs. Sperm may be next.