Futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees human immortality. He predicts artificial intelligence will match human intelligence by 2029.

Much of the food you eat is absorbed by your digestive system. But some makes it all the way through those twists and turns and comes out the other end.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have discovered that the gut's rhythmic muscle movements could help explain how blood vessels in the brain expand and contract together.

When you think of probiotics, yogurt comes to mind first. And for good reason, it’s been the poster child for gut-friendly ...

After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is—for the first time—the lead author of a ...

The human body is packed with natural rhythms, from your sleep-wake cycle to the steady pulsing of blood through the brain to ...

This month, Saudi Arabia announced that it had abolished the controversial 50-year-old Kafala labor sponsorship system. This system is viewed as "modern-day slavery" and gives employers, known as ...

For patients like Pham, Vantive’s home dialysis technologies represent more than medical equipment — they’re a pathway to a ...

It is basically a sign that your digestive system is working fine, which particularly happens because of the action of ...

With the end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history, federal workers were back in their offices, national parks were fully ...

A drug that changes ceramide metabolism strongly protected against acute kidney injury, a serious and sometimes-fatal ...