In the grand tapestry of human evolution, some body parts have been left behind as remnants of a bygone era. These vestiges ...

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The 17th century Evelyn Tables show real human nerves and veins, dried on wooden boards. Designers on the new Netflix film ...

"This fundamentally changes how we think about the evolution of complex nervous systems," said biologist Jack Ullrich-Lüter.

When Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, anatomy was a science on the edge of revelation and respectability. Public ...

In this system, the implanted computer chip would not just sit on the brain, but become part of the brain. Using a technology ...

Your body maintains a biological “set point” for weight, beyond calories, through powerful hormonal and neural feedback loops ...

A giraffe's long legs aren't just for height, they save energy by reducing how hard the heart works to pump blood upward ...

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.

In many cells of the human body, hair-like protrusions known as cilia act as antennae, allowing cells to receive signals from ...

You might be surprised to learn that there are more than two types of diabetes. We're all familiar with types 1 and 2, but you may have seen another one – type 1.5 – making headlines recently. Type ...

Proteins play a critical role in cellular function by interacting with other biomolecules; missense variants that cause loss of protein function can lead to a broad spectrum of genetic disorders.