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Can you believe that Google's Android operating system has been around since 2008 ... which uses a visual, flowchart-based interface for making your own custom-designed scripts.

Immune system scientists and computational biologists are developing a new tool to investigate how the body fights disease.

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The development of novel therapeutics offers great hope for the fight against widespread diseases such as cancer, but they ...

What’s left is poop, a.k.a. stool, which is stored in your rectum until you’re ready to have a bowel movement. “The presence ...

PSCAN, which enables minimally invasive, wide-field, high-resolution imaging of the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) in living mice. This technique allows detailed investigation of NTS activity and ...

Your body has a sophisticated way of eliminating toxins that involves the liver, kidneys, digestive system, skin, and lungs. Still, only when these organs are healthy can they effectively ...

Complications of corticosteroid therapy are numerous and virtually any organ system in the body may be affected. It should be emphasized that when corticosteroids are used appropriately and ...

Believe it or not, humans can live without plenty of body parts. Lungs, eyes, kidneys: turns out you don't need 'em! Well, ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. People whose biological age is higher than ...