Just like fingerprints, your breathing patterns may be a unique identifying feature. Scientists have found they can identify ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

The cure for male pattern baldness could already be in the human body. The condition, which causes gradual hair loss, affects up to 50% of men worldwide. Researchers at the University of Sheffield ...

Certain patterns of weight gain and loss -- and corresponding changes in body mass index, or BMI -- may help predict a person's risk of developing dementia, a new study suggests.

Researchers have developed a tool that harnesses the natural oscillation patterns of the human and animal body to improve robot movement. The Technical University of Munich’s (TUM) tool helps ...

The human body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells of diverse shapes and sizes, all working together to keep you alive. The smallest of these cells, like platelets and red ...

A study published in PNAS provides a comprehensive look at the relationship between cell size and count across the human body, drawing from over 1,500 sources and identifying around 400 unique ...

Many aspects of our world, from the body mass of creatures in the animal kingdom to the population of cities across the globe, follow an intriguing mathematical pattern. Known as Zipf's law, the ...

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

“Lifetime body weight patterns, weight loss, and renal cell carcinoma subtypes.” Zhengyi Deng, Chiyuan Amy Zhang, Justin X. Moore, Saira Khan, ... and treatment of human cancer.

The human body can predict the timing of regular meals, according to a new study. The research team also found that daily blood glucose rhythms may be driven not only by meal timing but by meal size.