The experiment was a striking attempt to investigate weight control. For six weeks, a group of mice gorged on lard-enriched ...

elegans, is able to use heat-sensing nerve cells to not only regulate its response to hotter environments, but also to control the pace of its aging as a result of that heat, according to new research ...

Although the findings are in worms, Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California, San Francisco, says there are known to be many similarities between worms and people in the insulin signaling ...

They've been called the nightcrawlers of Los Angeles television -- freelance videographers who chase shootings, fires, accidents and homicides to sell later to local television news stations.