NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Dr. Randi Hutter Epstein about her new book Aroused, which tells the story of the scientific quest to understand human hormones. What do sleep, sex, insulin, mood ...

The human gut is the largest mammalian organ to produce hormones. In response to food, the hormone-producing cells in this organ secrete dozens of peptides. Now, researchers from the Organoid group ...

Nearly 10 years after the discovery that birds make a hormone that suppresses reproduction, University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have established that humans make it too, opening the ...

Rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) were getting lower in the United States for many years, but that trend has recently reversed, and STI rates are now skyrocketing. Gonorrhea is one of ...

Bioidentical hormones are synthetic substances designed to replicate natural human hormones, and are commonly used to address hormonal imbalances. Companies often market them as safer and more ...

A common weedkiller in the U.S., already suspected of causing sexual abnormalities in frogs and fish, has now been found to alter hormonal signaling in human cells, scientists from the University of ...

Brain organoids have come a long way. These mini-brains, at most the size of a pea, are made from stem cells or reprogrammed skin cells and churned inside a bioreactor full of nutrients. With ...

Neurobiology may sound complex, but boosting your brain health is simple with SottoPelle®. Scientific research shows that hormones set the stage in motion for every function of the body and brain.

A medical treatment last used in the mid-1980s appears to be linked to at least five cases of early Alzheimer’s disease in the United Kingdom, scientists say. Researchers at University College London ...

Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report puts a spotlight on the growing use of human growth hormone. One reason: Baseball doesn't test for the substance. But that could change if the union ...

What do sleep, sex, insulin, mood and hunger have in common? Well, they're all controlled by hormones. But just a century ago, the power of our chemical messengers was barely understood. A new book by ...