Even in the case of uncomplicated infections, the body prepares itself early on for the possibility of a more severe course.

Rest assured, the hype is real. Hypertrophy is, by definition, the enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in size of its cells. Not to be confused with hyperplasia, the process of ...

In a study published in Cell, a research team led by Prof. Li Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

to push the blood around the body a system of tubes to contain the blood (arteries, veins and capillaries) The blood is the transport medium – it carries substances to all cells in the body and ...

The body's cells respond to stress—toxins, mutations, starvation or other assaults—by pausing normal functions to focus on ...