Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

Why do some people remain healthy through childhood yet become more vulnerable to brain disorders such as dementia later in life? A KAIST-led team has uncovered a key part of the answer: a ...

Prenatal and early-life factors significantly influence childhood obesity trajectories, highlighting the need for early interventions to promote healthy growth. The study assessed prenatal exposure to ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice bulldozers" that pulverized our planet's crust and may have contributed to ...

A mouse study reveals that the long-term health effects of early nutritional and antibiotic exposure depend not just on what happens early in life but also on who you inherit your genes from. Study: ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on one of life's greatest mysteries: why biology is based on a very ...

While antibiotics given in the first week of life reduce vaccine responses at 15 months, probiotics might counteract these effects. For several vaccine antigens, the researchers observed that antibody ...

When my daughter was 5 years old, we received a diagnosis that no parent is ever ready for. That was the first time the “C” word — cancer — changed my life forever.