Your brain ventricles are four fluid-filled chambers that produce cerebrospinal fluid. This fluid helps nourish your brain and protect it from injury. It would be easy to argue that your brain is the ...

Cellular senescence is commonly defined as a state characterized by permanent cell cycle arrest in the absence of cell death, in which cells have altered function. While cellular senescence has been ...

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that individual cells in the human ...

The researchers integrated measures of both brain structure and function to enable a more precise characterization of the human brain. Rather than identifying intelligence with a particular cognitive ...

The long-held belief that brain structure is fixed early in life has largely given way to the well-established concept of neuroplasticity—the idea that brain structure and function continue to change ...

Neuroimaging and animal research reveal how pregnancy hormones remodel neural circuits and leave a long-lasting mark on women ...

Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, ...