As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human biology is struggling to keep pace. Many of the chronic stress-related health ...

Scientists have identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human health ...

In a recent perspective article published in the journal Nature Communications, over 30 scientists from around the world discussed the action plans and principles of the global scientific initiative ...

This semester, the Office of Biology Undergraduate Education introduced a new dual-advising structure for biology and health and human biology concentrators. Each student will now be assigned two ...

There are Americans who are "obscenely obese and at the same time malnourished," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says. He blames ultraprocessed food.

Sweat rarely smells on its own. Body odour develops when bacteria on the skin break down compounds in sweat and release volatile chemicals that evaporate into the air.

Biohub is launching the Virtual Immune System, a flagship effort to model the immense complexity of the human immune system. The aim is to change the understanding of immunological science - opening ...

Public health and politics are deeply intertwined, Stanford human biology alumni said during a panel discussion as part of the University’s Democracy Day programming on Tuesday. The panel featured two ...

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has officially voted to change the name of the Human Evolutionary Biology concentration during a meeting on April 1. Effective as of July 1, 2025 — when the ...