Hormones play a vital part in keeping our bodies working properly. But they can also have a powerful – and sometimes negative ...

A new study highlights just how flexible the human body can be by demonstrating that in adult transgender women receiving ...

The human gut is the largest mammalian organ to produce hormones. In response to food, the hormone-producing cells in this organ secrete dozens of peptides. Now, researchers from the Organoid group ...

It’s a common saying that, in life, change is the only constant. From the shifting of the seasons to unexpected personal upheavals, the human body is in a perpetual face-off with its environment. The ...

Melbourne researchers have discovered gender-affirming hormone therapy can alter body proteins to match a person's gender ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also leading to the behavioral traits that have made human societies able to thrive ...

Brain organoids have come a long way. These mini-brains, at most the size of a pea, are made from stem cells or reprogrammed skin cells and churned inside a bioreactor full of nutrients. With ...

Recent research has shown that ingredients in the foods we eat, pollution in the air we breathe and toxins in the goods we use on a daily basis are changing our bodies in harmful or bizarre ways, and ...

Under special conditions, some cells of the pancreas can produce the hormone GLP-1, mimicked by popular diabetes drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, according to a new study that upends what we knew about ...

Recent research findings put a spotlight on the link between human growth hormone (HGH) and Alzheimer’s disease. Could taking HGH increase your risk of Alzheimer’s? Ultimately, scientists say they ...