Adipose tissue is far more important for our health than many may realize. It does not merely function as an energy store, ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have carried out the most detailed mapping to date of the epigenome in the cells ...

Type 2 diabetes becomes more dangerous to the heart the longer a person has it. Researchers found that after several years, red blood cells can begin interfering with healthy blood vessel function.

While research has uncovered many details about how blood cells function within bone marrow, the work of other cells existing in that space remained a relative mystery. Now, researchers from the ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have carried out the most detailed mapping to date of the epigenome in the cells ...

Your blood cells work tirelessly to keep you alive, carrying oxygen throughout your body and fighting off infections. But hidden in your daily meals are foods that can silently compromise these vital ...

New research suggests a high-salt diet may trick the immune system into prematurely aging the blood vessels, leading to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -New research has identified yet another way that spaceflight tampers with the human body. A study involving samples flown on four SpaceX resupply missions to the International ...

Dr. Omar Al-Heeti is an assistant professor of medicine at Southern Illinois University and practices internal medicine with a specialty in infectious diseases. He received his medical degree from the ...