Living tissue from the memory centers of people’s brains reveals sparse nerve cell connections that provide strong, reliable signaling between cells.

A study of gene expression in the human brain shows that cell types become increasingly specialized, rather than simply more numerous. The human brain stands out as the organ that most distinctly ...

Kidney and nerve tissue cells can form memories much like brain cells, one new study has found. Another recent study says that memories of obesity stored in fat tissue may be partly responsible for ...

The conjoined twins from United States, Abby and Brittany Hensel, have two heads, two brains and two hearts but one ...

Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the human body and plays an essential role in the body's general health. It ...

Human beings share many disease-causing organisms with livestock, including worms such as tapeworms, bacteria such as anthrax ...

Chemical messengers called hormones are found all across the human body. They are in charge of both physical and mental ...

In response to this article, several physicians and ethicists responded with a long letter stating that even if a blanket ...

I f your goal is to be happier in the year ahead, you might focus on your body rather than your mind. You can start right now ...

Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without enzymes. These tiny proteins, found in every living organism, are the catalysts ...

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, and each one provides specific chemical properties. Twenty are necessary to ...

A review on the health effects of microplastics has some scientists suspecting the worst. The tiny synthetic particles that ...