Humans have an exceptional ability to deal with viruses. In most cases, your immune system is able to fight an infection. On ...

The next big advance in treating diseases like rheumatoid arthritis could be tiny pulses of electricity delivered to the ...

A healthy diet is key to living a long and healthy life, but proper nutrition becomes even more important during pregnancy. After all, you're growing a whole new human being inside of you.

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A “SILENT pandemic” is slowly destroying the lives of millions of Brits, experts warn.  As many as 50 per cent of people in ...

Using human tissue samples and multiple approaches in mouse models of renal failure, we demonstrated that the kidney serves as an origin of pathological α-synuclein in PD. Katherine Behl is a ...

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Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary ...

“But we’re starting to realise the immune system does a lot ... “It shows how the nervous, immune, and hormonal systems work together to enable one of the body’s most essential processes ...

New research has revealed that the nervous system circuitry that controls arm movement in octopuses is segmented, giving these extraordinary creatures precise control across all eight arms and ...

The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least partially down to the segmentation of the nervous system circuitry that governs it. This discovery by ...

Cambrian fossils reveal ventral nerve cord structure in early ecdysozo Single ventral nerve cord identified as ancestral nervous system desig Paired nerve cords evolved later, aiding segmentation and ...