Diabetes affects the body and the body affects diabetes. Click on a body system or body part and see the role that organs, hormones and responses play in ensuring the body functions and how diabetes ...

Using a powerful microscopy technique, a team led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center has gained insights into how the body uses vitamin K, an essential nutrient that plays a pivotal role ...

Being active boosts your daily calorie burn more than previously thought. Researchers found that increased physical activity ...

Your body is constantly performing a delicate balancing act that most of us never think about. While we’re busy worrying about calories and carbs, a microscopic chemistry experiment determines how ...

Source: Image by Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay All living creatures survive by mobilizing resources in their bodies to deal with threats and replenishing them when feeling safe. Both are ...

Body functionality refers to everything that the body can do. Body functions broadly fall into six domains, including (1) physical capacities (e.g., stretching), (2) internal processes (e.g., ...

Studying elite athletes in real-world endurance events offers a rare glimpse into the limits of human performance. In cycling, few challenges test the body and mind like the Tour Divide — a ...

The hormone system is a network of glands and organs in the body that produce hormones. It is also called the endocrine system. The diagrams shows the main parts of the hormone system in men and women ...