Researchers have gained new insights into the genetic basis of rye reproduction. They have demonstrated how plants recombine ...
New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine shows that the enzyme biliverdin reductase A (BVRA) plays a direct protective role ...
That overwhelming work deadline or financial worry isn’t just affecting your mood and sleep. Your stress might actually be altering your child’s developing nervous system through biological pathways ...
Your brain, your nervous system, your hormones - they were all forged in an environment that no longer exists. Back in the day, stress meant one thing: danger. A predator. A threat. Something trying ...
About two millennia ago, the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen suggested that melancholia—depression brought on by an excess of "black bile" in the body—contributed to cancer. Since then, scores ...
Young umbrella acacia trees in Africa survive severe drought by putting their natural processes into overdrive when water is ...
A long-studied metabolic hormone, FGF21, also acts as a stress hormone—a discovery that helps explain how psychological stress causes metabolic dysregulation and drives physical disease, according to ...
Scientists discovered that baker’s yeast can survive harsh Mars-like conditions, revealing how simple life forms adapt under ...
As men age, the conversation around “low testosterone” often oversimplifies a far more complex story. Hormones influence mood, motivation, and vitality—but so do sleep, stress, and lifestyle.
Within a wide range of interdisciplinary studies at UC Irvine, every major has different expectations, demands, workloads and ...
Physician and Author of The Stress Paradox: Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier Physician and Author of The Stress Paradox: Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and ...