Microplastics have been found in our lungs, guts, and even our blood. Now, researchers say they may reduce protective enzymes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A gene-edited pig kidney transplanted into a brain-dead man’s body is functioning well more than 4 weeks later.

A computer-generated image of red blood cells. Nitric oxide—known by the formula NO—is so vital for humans’ internal physiological processes that it was crowned Molecule of the Year in 1992. It plays ...

New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on four SpaceX resupply missions to the International Space Station has ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), manmade chemicals that accumulate in the body over time, have been linked to ...

Iron deficiency is a leading nutritional disorder, which affects millions of people throughout the world. The human body ...

Recent research has shown that ingredients in the foods we eat, pollution in the air we breathe and toxins in the goods we use on a daily basis are changing our bodies in harmful or bizarre ways, and ...

A new method to keep human lymph node tissue alive and functioning outside the body for several days could give researchers a ...

The future of life-saving treatments may be just a chip off the ‘ole blood sample. Scientists at Columbia University have created a set of real — and really tiny — human organs that interact on a chip ...