When the cells in the pancreatic gland start to multiply at abnormal rates, a tumor forms, robbing our body's essential ...

Tampa General Hospital is using new technology to get pancreas' to their operating rooms for transplants in a much more ...

Explore the fascinating world of hormones, their impact on health, and the surprising size of the endocrine glands.

One figure widely quoted by pest control companies: There are 1,000 pounds of termites for every human on Earth. If you like big numbers, the 2018 report is delicious reading. Recently ...

An AI system like ChatGPT (GPT-4) is not very sample efficient. It was "trained" on millions of examples of human text, constructing probabilistic "rules" about which combinations of words are most ...

Michael Timothy Bennett receives funding from the Australian government. Elija Perrier receives funding from the Australian government. A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved ...

Diabetes. 2013;62(10):3514-3522. In summary, our data do not support an early phase of endocrine differentiation in human embryos analogous to primary transition during mouse development, and we ...

The pancreas is a large gland in the abdomen. It secretes pancreatic juices into the small intestine to digest food, and secretes insulin into the bloodstream to regulate glucose levels.

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, United ...

Human minibrains in little vials surprised scientists by surviving a stint in low-Earth orbit. US researchers sent lab-grown blobs of human neural tissue known as organoids for a short holiday on the ...

New research reveals how genes inherited from Neanderthals and critical developmental markers like PITX2 influence tooth size, shedding light on human evolution and genetic diversity. Study ...

From periods of rapid aging in our 40s and 60s to ancient brains that don’t decompose, here are some of the year’s most intriguing stories about human biology It can sometimes feel like health ...