Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have found how plant cells respond to stress. If their energy ...

Abstract: Biological visual systems provide excellent examples of robust target detection and tracking mechanisms capable of performing in a wide range of environments. Consequently, they have been ...

Neuroscience examines the structure and function of the human brain and nervous system. Neuroscientists use cellular and molecular biology, anatomy and physiology, human behavior and cognition, and ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden ‒ American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries in controlling ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded today to Princeton graduate alumna Mary Brunkow “for groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the ...

The human digestive system refers to the organs that take in food and break them down. Digestion describes the complex process that enables the nutrients in food to enter the body and its cells. Food ...

Hunger is an ancestral and evolutionary survival instinct; its importance is evident in the complex and redundant pathways involving all five senses that regulate it. 1,2 Historically, when humans ...

Prize given to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine 2024 has been awarded to two ...

The evolutionarily ancient part of the brain that controls breathing and heart rate also regulates the immune system — a discovery about the brain-body axis made by experts on taste. Last month, ...

Summary: Researchers discovered that the brain can significantly influence the immune system, particularly its inflammatory responses. The study utilized mice to show that the brain can detect and ...

aMetabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA bSection on Medical Neuroendocrinology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of ...