A study in Nature reveals how gut cells sense microbial flagellin and signal the brain to stop eating—introducing a sixth ...

Researchers from Japan and France have successfully reconstituted the development of mouse egg cells, known as oocytes, from ...

Inside each cell of the human body are proteins that control which genes are expressed at the right place and time. However, intriguingly, many of the most important proteins involved in gene ...

In current clinical practice, the localization of human acupuncture points relies extensively on the subjective experience of physicians. Therefore, despite being a crucial basic content of ...

Viewed this way, “Mind-Body medicine” is the tail wagging the dog, to put it mildly.

Researchers from ChristianaCare’s Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute and the University of Delaware have ...

The human body undergoes a daily replacement of billions of cells, but the tissues remain flawlessly organized. How can that be?

Scientists have uncovered a surprisingly simple “tissue code”: five rules that choreograph when, where, and how cells divide, ...

One reason the team turned to mathematical models, rather than traditional biology experiments, is that it’s extremely ...