In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

The next time you’re questioning if someone is right for you, pay close attention to your body — it may already know the ...

As temperatures drop, zip up that coat, pull on a hat and gloves and be mindful of how much time you’re exposed to the ...

New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in ...

Our biceps and brain cells might have more in common than we believed. According to a new study from the Lippincott-Schwartz ...

The new research reveals a novel mechanism for signal transmission in brain cells and helps answer an open question in neuroscience about how intracellular signals travel over long distances in ...

While discussions often misattribute mass violence to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a more forensic psychiatry perspective ...

It was 1974, and as a student in Alpena Community College’s nursing program, every spare hour was spent studying. I was completely immersed in the complexities of the human body and the incredible way ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

What has puzzled researchers and philosophers for many centuries is the ‘why’ of sleep, along with the ‘how’. We human animals know from experience that we need to sleep, ...

The brain of humans and other animals is known to contribute to the protection of the body from infections. Past studies have ...

By analyzing the brains of 52 dead patients, scientists were able to visualize how microplastics amass inside us ...