Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the ...

This important study examines the role of pericytes in patterning the zebrafish blood-brain barrier (BBB) and controlling its permeability. Using pdgfrb mutant zebrafish models lacking brain pericytes ...

Porton Down’s archive was opened up for a study into the health of the human volunteers in the nerve agent testing programme.

Galen, a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher who lived during Roman times, described the heart as the body’s furnace, ...

Caroline Darian was at home in Paris when she received a call from her mother, Gisèle Pelicot, telling her that her husband ...

Little is known about the associated brain activation during these sleep rhythms, and even less about their functional implications. In this study, we investigated the brain-wide activation underlying ...

Despite its unpleasantness, pain has a critically important purpose, designed to protect the body rather than harm it.

Muscle is a soft tissue composed of elongated cells (muscle fibres) that produce force and motion through contraction. Involuntary cardiac and smooth muscles are responsible for contraction of the ...