Crack open any biology textbook, and you’ll find tidy diagrams, clean labels, and plenty of comforting facts about the human ...
Imagine seeing your body from the inside out, a hidden world where more than 30 trillion cells are constantly renewing and regenerating to keep you alive. Men typically have around 36 trillion cells, ...
Over time, plastics break into smaller and smaller fragments called microplastics and — when they’re invisible to the naked eye — nanoplastics. The human body’s mechanisms ...
Our bodies are not perfectly designed, but are a living archive of evolution. Anatomy reveals a historical record of ...
As human spaceflight continues to pushes boundaries, scientists try to understand — and minimise — the physical and ...
We're in our bodies every day, but how well do we really know them? From how the brain supports higher-level thinking to why ...
The From Labs to Lives Blog connects everyday topics with UC Davis research. Each post is reviewed by our experts, ensuring you always get useful information you can trust. Because we can’t see them, ...
As humans prepare for longer missions to the moon and Mars, scientists are trying to understand how space affects the human body. One of the biggest concerns is space radiation — high-energy particles ...
Rising temperatures disrupt human cellular stability by impairing proteostasis, altering mitochondrial function, reprogramming gene expression, and reshaping immune responses, ultimately shifting ...