Ever looked in the mirror and wondered what incredible, and sometimes unsettling, secrets your own body might be holding?

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

The human body is an amazing, curious, and disgusting thing. At any given moment, millions of tiny lifeforms are making their way across your body—both inside and out. And now, researchers say they've ...

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Damian Bailey is supported by grants from the European Space Agency, SpaceX and Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellowship. He is Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Physiology and outgoing Chair of the ...

Although some genes linked to life span have been identified, external environmental forces, such as disease or living ...