An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types ...

New mechanisms discovered that show how development-dependent disruptions in mitochondrial function lead to premature skeletal aging.

Widespread neuronal mitochondrial complex I (CI) deficiency was recently reported to be a characteristic in a subgroup of individuals with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we sought to ...

They stress that "archaeological human skeletal remains" can offer "direct evidence" to study past "pathological and health ...

Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.

Hutchinson's disease, Hutchinson's freckle (a pre-cancerous spot occurring in old age). The reconstructed human skeleton is one of the objects featured on our AHOW Relic trail.