The human body is packed with natural rhythms, from your sleep-wake cycle to the steady pulsing of blood through the brain to ...

Health Professions and Sports students are taking advantage of a new addition to augmented/digital/virtual teaching and ...

"Once damaged, these hairs never grow back. You have around 3,500, and that is all you'll have throughout your entire life...

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

The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager ...

The From Labs to Lives Blog provides clear, accessible explainers on everyday topics for which UC Davis has expertise. Each post is reviewed by faculty or subject-matter experts, ensuring readers get ...

A groundbreaking study by the Canadian researchers showed that living organisms emit an extremely faint light, known as Ultraweak Photon Emission (UPE) and that it disappears at the time of death. The ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Humans have been trying to replace ailing parts of our bodies for thousands of years, turning to prosthetic limbs, ...

Science is advancing our understanding of the human body (photo taken at the Wellcome Centre, London) —Image by © Tim Sandle Science is advancing our understanding ...

The cleaner was arrested during a routine patrol (file photo) A South African hospital cleaner has been arrested after being found in possession of a bag of human placentas in eastern Mpumalanga ...