Cellular membrane proteins play many important roles throughout the body, including transporting substances in and out of the ...

A study led by EPFL shows that Urolithin A, a natural compound, can abolish high anxiety in rats by repairing mitochondrial function in their brain cells, specifically in the nucleus accumbens. The ...

A study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Ph.D., and Travis E. Faust, Ph.D., at UMass Chan Medical School, explains how two different ...

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will laying out his wishes for the Nobel Prize.

Discover the complete list of Nobel Prize in Medicine winners from 1901 to 2025. Explore year-wise laureates, their groundbreaking discoveries, and how each contribution transformed healthcare.

Zeaxanthin, an eye health nutrient, boosted tumor-fighting T cells and slowed cancer growth in mice. Human trials are still needed.

Get to know the functions of your heart, blood vessels, and blood itself and how they work together to maintain your health.

Aquaglyceroporin Aqp10, a protein channel for water and glycerol, selectively permeates urea and boric acid due to its unique structural features—report researchers from Japan.  By comparing and ...

A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of ...

Researchers at Duke University used CRISPR technologies to discover previously unannotated stretches of DNA in the "dark ...

Some eukaryotes consist of a single cell; but most single-celled creatures are made of simpler cells which lack obvious ...

Some bits of the resultant anatomy are body parts but not organs—arms, say. Organs are, for the most part, the bits where ...