physiology

Several real-life pathogens can change a host’s behavior against their will. Here’s what we know about these zombie-like infections.

Even though we’ve learned a lot about this relative of smallpox, some mysteries remain due to a lack of political will.

Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details.

While it’s understandable to focus on the diseases affecting humans, it’s important to study how our illnesses may affect animals.

No matter how much we’d like to eradicate SARS-CoV-2, it may be better to settle for other forms of control.

Other diseases with long-term symptoms can help us understand how COVID can affect us long after the virus itself is gone.

Studies of sleep are usually neurological. But some of nature’s simplest animals suggest that sleep evolved for metabolic reasons, long before brains even existed.

Researchers are tracking the different strains of SARS-CoV-2 and studying how they spread through our population and our bodies.

Research hints that the energy-generating organelles of cells may play a surprisingly pivotal role in mediating anxiety and depression.