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The research, published today in Current Biology, showed that ultramarathoners can burn an astounding 11,000 calories per day ...

An NIH-supported initiative seeks to unravel how the nervous system tracks and regulates the body’s internal organs. How does your brain recognize when it’s time to take a breath, when your blood ...

"This discovery shows that the body has a built-in backup plan. GLP-1 is simply a much more powerful signal for beta cells than glucagon,” Dr Campbell said. “The ability to switch from glucagon to GLP ...

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically laid out in rows, naked as the day they were born, and ...

Former civil servant Luo Chen Jun suggests having a single national registry linking organ, body, and brain donations. Read ...