Temperature is a key physiological factor that determines the speed of immune reactions. While this may seem obvious, it has remained largely unexplored at the single-cell level-until now.

MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-delivery patch that can be placed on the heart after a heart attack to help ...

Researchers have discovered that free radicals generated at a specific site in non-neuronal brain cells called astrocytes, ...

An analysis of brain scans from 572 people reveals that activity in brain regions linked to reward and social processing can predict how effective messages will be.

Vertebrates have extremely different brain sizes: even with the same body size, brain size can vary a hundredfold.

Patients with implanted medical devices like orthopedic joint replacements, pacemakers, and artificial heart valves run a small but significant risk that these devices get infected with bacterial ...

As digital health technologies gain momentum, research is finding that more people are open to artificial intelligence (AI) supported health interventions when those are backed by clinical expertise ...

Running may help burn calories, but when it comes to preventing diabetes and obesity, pumping iron might have the edge, ...

A new survey from Orlando Health reveals that over one-third of men (38%) would rather endure stressful situations, such as ...

What if the brain's response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes ...

Bacteria that often cause urinary infections can spread as rapidly as swine flu. But E. coli that are resistant to several ...

People with type 1 diabetes achieved significantly better long-term blood glucose when their levels were monitored by ...