Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

A basic review of the anatomy, physiology and personal protective equipment related to the respiratory system.

Vitamins got their name in the early 1900s when London-based Polish biochemist Casimir Funk—one of many scientists seeking ...

Elevated hormone levels in the womb, combined with enhanced placental function, may have played a key role in human evolution ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that ...

Scientists have developed a new polymer, PHOx, which could significantly improve the safety of implantable medical devices ...

Human testicles are much smaller, in proportion, to some of our primate cousins. Evolution can tell us why. But the size of ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the cerbrum contains less than 20 percent of the neurons in our brain. Eighty ...

Discover how the brain "eats" itself during a marathon, and how the recovery process opens doors to possible MS treatments.

Researchers mapped Y chromosome loss across thousands of individual cells from human cancers, with disturbing results.