Chronic stress is on the rise—the result of an evolutionary mismatch that our bodies and brains, adapted over hundreds of ...

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

What if clinicians could place tiny electronic chips in the brain that electrically stimulate a precise target, through a ...

For years, doctors have relied on familiar vital signs—heart rate, blood pressure, temperature and oxygen levels—to monitor someone's health. But researchers at the University of Missouri believe one ...

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.

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

By electrically stimulating macrophages, scientists at Trinity College Dublin have found a way to calm inflammation and ...

Hypoxia due to impaired lung function or high altitude led to epigenetic changes in the genome of neutrophils, cells ...

According to study co-lead author Qizhi Qin, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the James Laboratory, the researchers also found ...

NIH invests $14.2 million to map interoception, the body’s hidden sixth sense, revealing how the brain monitors vital ...