There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Your digestive system starts its job even before you eat your first bite. The digestive system consists of the parts of the body that work together to turn food and liquids into the building blocks ...

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Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are crucial for protecting against bacterial infection in people with compromised immune systems, report investigators. Their work shows that a network of immune cells ...

Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects. "It's insane," says University of North Carolina ...

Krissy Brady is a health and wellness writer. Her writing has appeared in magazines like Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health and WW, as well as on websites like EatingWell, HuffPost and SELF. She’s also a ...