The human microbiome, the diverse microbial community residing within and on the human body, has garnered significant ...

The human body is a masterpiece of engineering. Beyond the common facts everyone knows, there are peculiar abilities, rare ...

Scientists have generated human stem cell models which contain notochord -- a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, directing cells where to build the spine and nervous ...

Damian Bailey is supported by grants from the European Space Agency, SpaceX and Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship. He is Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Physiology and outgoing Chair of the ...

Researchers have developed a new "body clock" tool that calculates people’s biological age — and could even predict the risk of disability or death. The tool, which comes from the University of ...

Share on Pinterest The human body experiences rapid changes around age 50, according to a new study. Maskot/Getty Images Past studies show that human aging doesn’t necessarily happen at the same pace ...

If a pig embryo infused with human cells truly became something close enough to count as a member of the human species, then ...

On Wednesday, Clone Robotics released video footage of its Protoclone humanoid robot, a full-body machine that uses synthetic muscles to create unsettlingly human-like movements. In the video, the ...