Why do we age? It’s a seemingly simple question that nonetheless scientists don’t have a great answer to. Some amount of aging seems to be controlled by our genetic makeup, while other evidence shows ...

An experiment at the State University of Campinas found that FGF19, a substance produced in the intestine, acts on specific ...

Scientists have found that stem cells in the brain's hypothalamus govern how fast aging occurs in the body. The finding, made in mice, could lead to new strategies for warding off age-related diseases ...

FOR a long time scientists thought the brain was one of the few parts of the adult body that do not grow new cells. Brain cells might rearrange themselves, they believed, rewiring new memories and ...

Your body maintains a biological “set point” for weight, beyond calories, through powerful hormonal and neural feedback loops ...

Birth control pills have been found to reduce a part of the brain that is associated with controlling the sex drive finds a new study. The study results are being presented as a preview in the annual ...

Circulating Tumor DNA Measurements As Early Outcome Predictors in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Of 222 patients in the study, 189 were evaluable by actuarial analysis, with a median follow-up of 4.4 ...