Collagen, the protein that builds skin, bones, tendons and organs, exists inside cells as a liquidlike droplet rather than ...

In our latest interview with biological anthropologist and broadcaster Alice Roberts, we discuss the wonderful benefits ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

Microplastics and nanoplastics are now found everywhere on Earth, from ocean depths to agricultural soils and even inside the human body. Yet scientists still struggle to understand what these ...

Scientists are using postmortem human brains to test new drugs. Discover how this breakthrough is changing medicine and ...

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is the cause of AIDS, is a master of deception, using just nine genes to hijack the complex cellular machinery of the human body. Yet, even after decades ...

From pregnancy to stronger immune responses, science reveals unique biological abilities that women possess and men cannot ...

Over the past year, scientists have searched brain tissue, arteries and even joints for the presence of microplastics. The tiny particles, they have found, are ubiquitous in the human body — littering ...

In previous archaeological excavations, Neolithic burials in Southwest Asia have been found with traces of symbolic red ochre and the remains of plaster casts, which are thought to have protected the ...

The growing recognition that the human body functions as an integrated, communicative whole, rather than a collection of isolated organs, is a welcome and important development. This systems-level ...