An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does your brain recognize when it’s time to take a breath, when your blood ...

A team of American scientists has discovered what they described as the 'hidden sixth sense' in the human body, a discovery ...

The five vital organs in the human body are the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver. Other organs include the gallbladder, pancreas, and stomach. Organ systems, such as the nervous system, support ...

The team, led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Ardem Patapoutian, alongside Li Ye of Scripps Research and Bosiljka Tasic ...

How does your brain know when you need to breathe, when your blood pressure drops or when you’re fighting an infection? The ...

The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of ...

The limits of the senses remain an unknown to be discovered. Many scientists have sought answers to unravel one of humanity's ...

Scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have created the world's most sophisticated lab model of the human body, developing a full system of miniaturized organs known as ...

A study in mice and human tissue suggests that astrocytes harbor HIV. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The HIV virus can take ...