New research reveals multiple pathways through which poor organ health may contribute to poor mental health. Researchers ...

"For example," he notes, "some immune cells regulate how the body absorbs fat from food, and we've recently shown that brain-immune interactions help control fat metabolism and obesity. This got us ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

Using diagrams, the structure of the respiratory system is shown and then the structure ... students to consider how air gets into the body and then oxygen into the blood stream.

Unlike mammals, birds lay eggs and initial stages of development occur outside the mother’s body. Reproductive system of birds The gonads develop from two sources during embryonic development. When ...

In this Science Spotlight episode, Dr. Yassen Abbas, Lead Scientist at CN Bio, discusses his innovative research on a dual-organ system that combines primary jejunum and hepatocyte cultures to enhance ...

Examination of the mucosal immune system as a global organ, rather than as a group of individual components, will identify and characterize relationships between mucosal sites. The term 'common ...

All living things are made of cells which are differentiated to perform different functions. Substances move into or out of the cell and enzymes are catalysts contributing to cell metabolism.