The human body is a veritable cellular highway with up to 37 trillion cells traveling about and carrying out all essential ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans ...

Our evolutionary advantage over our primate relatives may come down to accelerated genetic expression in just six types of brain cells.

A team of international researchers has developed a new biological age "clock" that estimates how well someone is aging, not ...

A new study suggests that eating a cup of beans daily reduced cholesterol and inflammatory markers for people with ...