Your body is made up of 206 different bones. Find out more about your skeletal system. Your skeleton is what helps keeps you healthy and moving. 206 different bones make up the skeletal system. Your ...

Humans have a distinctive skeleton, and are the only bipedal great apes (the great ape species are bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and humans). While the evolution of the human skeleton ...

Researchers from University of Tsukuba have elucidated the molecular mechanism by which macrophages, a type of immune cell, control heat production in brown adipose tissue to increase the body ...

Our skeletons are the support system for our entire body. Poor posture is caused by many things. Reasons include hereditary physical disease, inner ear infections, nervous system disorders, eye ...

Researchers say a regulatory protein found in skeletal muscle fiber may play an important role in the body's fight or flight response when encountering stressful situations. Researchers at the ...