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Human Biology
Human biology is the branch of biology that focuses on human beings and human populations; it encompasses all aspects of the human organism including genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. Human biology is related to other fields of biology such as medicine, primate biology, and biological anthropology.
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FEB 02, 2021Plants & Animals
Humans aren't the only creatures with dialects that are specific to certain regions. It seems that colonies of naked mol ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 01, 2021Cardiology
Spinal cord injury patients obviously have to deal with the loss of function, but another, less obvious problem many of ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 01, 2021Microbiology
Spirochetes are a type of free-living, spiral-shaped bacteria, some of which are harmless and others that can cause dise ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 31, 2021Microbiology
The gut microbiome is made up of a huge number of different microbial species, and scientists are learning more about ho ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 31, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists and archaeologists have long sought to learn when humans started consuming milk. They have tried to use indir ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 29, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Humans are far more likely to get several types of cancerous tumors than our closest evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 28, 2021Genetics & Genomics
The characteristics of a cell and an organism are largely due to the genes that they express. When genes are active, the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 28, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
These variants can raise, or lower the risk of the disease, and now researchers have learned how they work.Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 27, 2021Microbiology
A new study has connected neonatal exposure to antibiotics within fourteen days of birth is linked to a reduction in bod ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 26, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have found a way to explain why a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) can be so differen ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 25, 2021Cardiology
While there has been limited evidence that activity and fitness can counter the health impacts of excess body fat, a new ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 25, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
For many years, scientists have relied on cells that grow in dishes and animal models to learn more about human diseases ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 25, 2021Microbiology
The advancement of genetic and computational tools has given us so much new information its opened up new research field ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 24, 2021Microbiology
To cause the COVID-19 illness, the SARS-CoV-2 virus first has to get into cells. To do so, it uses something called a sp ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 24, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have identified a hormone that is generated during exercise, and they determined that when mice are treated w ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 24, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have now characterized a genetic disorder called linkage-specific-deubiquitylation-deficiency-induced embryon ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 23, 2021Microbiology
About a year ago, I wrote about the virus that would come to be known as SARS-CoV-2 for the first time. And while we've ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 22, 2021Genetics & Genomics
Many different types of cells make up the human body, and the Human Cell Atlas is an initiative that has been aiming to ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 22, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have engineered a meat product that can be cultivated in a lab, and are suggesting that it contains more text ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 22, 2021Earth & The Environment
We’ve heard it before: the lands occupied and stewarded by Indigenous peoples are crucial biodiversity hotspots. N ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 19, 2021Cardiology
Some studies have suggested that moderate alcohol intake is linked to a lower risk of death from heart disease. But that ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 18, 2021Genetics & Genomics
The platypus is a near-threatened species from eastern Australia and Tasmania. It's considered a mammal because it grows ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 18, 2021Microbiology
For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about rising carbon dioxide levels in our planet's atmosphere, and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 18, 2021Cancer
New research published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology & Physics describes a new me ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 02, 2021
Plants & Animals
Humans aren't the only creatures with dialects that are specific to certain regions. It seems that colonies of naked mol
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 01, 2021
Cardiology
Spinal cord injury patients obviously have to deal with the loss of function, but another, less obvious problem many of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 01, 2021
Microbiology
Spirochetes are a type of free-living, spiral-shaped bacteria, some of which are harmless and others that can cause dise
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 31, 2021
Microbiology
The gut microbiome is made up of a huge number of different microbial species, and scientists are learning more about ho
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 31, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists and archaeologists have long sought to learn when humans started consuming milk. They have tried to use indir
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 29, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Humans are far more likely to get several types of cancerous tumors than our closest evolutionary cousins, chimpanzees.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 28, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The characteristics of a cell and an organism are largely due to the genes that they express. When genes are active, the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 28, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
These variants can raise, or lower the risk of the disease, and now researchers have learned how they work.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 27, 2021
Microbiology
A new study has connected neonatal exposure to antibiotics within fourteen days of birth is linked to a reduction in bod
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 26, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have found a way to explain why a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) can be so differen
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 25, 2021
Cardiology
While there has been limited evidence that activity and fitness can counter the health impacts of excess body fat, a new
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 25, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
For many years, scientists have relied on cells that grow in dishes and animal models to learn more about human diseases
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 25, 2021
Microbiology
The advancement of genetic and computational tools has given us so much new information its opened up new research field
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 24, 2021
Microbiology
To cause the COVID-19 illness, the SARS-CoV-2 virus first has to get into cells. To do so, it uses something called a sp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 24, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have identified a hormone that is generated during exercise, and they determined that when mice are treated w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 24, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have now characterized a genetic disorder called linkage-specific-deubiquitylation-deficiency-induced embryon
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 23, 2021
Microbiology
About a year ago, I wrote about the virus that would come to be known as SARS-CoV-2 for the first time. And while we've
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
Many different types of cells make up the human body, and the Human Cell Atlas is an initiative that has been aiming to
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have engineered a meat product that can be cultivated in a lab, and are suggesting that it contains more text
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2021
Earth & The Environment
We’ve heard it before: the lands occupied and stewarded by Indigenous peoples are crucial biodiversity hotspots. N
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 19, 2021
Cardiology
Some studies have suggested that moderate alcohol intake is linked to a lower risk of death from heart disease. But that
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 18, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
The platypus is a near-threatened species from eastern Australia and Tasmania. It's considered a mammal because it grows
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 18, 2021
Microbiology
For decades, scientists have been sounding the alarm about rising carbon dioxide levels in our planet's atmosphere, and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 18, 2021
Cancer
New research published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology & Physics describes a new me
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan