Cigarette smoking exposes you to nicotine and other chemicals that can increase your blood pressure and lead to hypertension. Learn why and what happens if you quit.

In this video, Anjay Rastogi, MD, PhD, professor and Clinical Chief of Nephrology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, discusses treatment options for chronic kidney disease patients with ...

To help prevent dementia and Alzheimer's disease, people should take a brisk walk each day, limit their TV time and do a crossword puzzle instead.

After fertilization, embryos race through rapid cell divisions before slowing down to build specialized cells that will carry ...

The physiology program prepares students for a career in original research, teaching, and applied physiology at a college, university, or professional school level. Graduates also find employment in ...

Researchers from the University of Rochester’s Department of Biomedical Engineering will shed new light on tissue and organ ...

UNC researchers discovered how a key step in cell signaling works by showing exactly how G proteins detach from receptors ...

For example, naïve T cells increase in size before undergoing a burst of proliferation, while liver and fat cells enlarge or contract in response to nutrient availability. In these cases, size changes ...

Chromosome compartment analysis of a cancer cell line cohort reveals different subsets of compartment changes where some track epithelial to mesenchymal transition while others reflect secondary ...

Q: My doctor just told me that I’m now considered obese. A week ago, I wasn’t — and I haven’t gained any weight. What’s going ...

Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and to develop into more mature, specialised cells. Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent, depending ...

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated protein degradation (ERAD) eliminates misfolded or unassembled proteins from the ER. ERAD targets are selected by a quality control system within the ER lumen and ...