“It’s about showing the Filipino child that science is not something foreign or unreachable. It’s theirs. It’s now,” said ...

New research shows that people do not age in a linear fashion, but rather the molecules that attribute to aging accelerate at major periods: age 44 and then again at 60.

But we’ve learned quite a lot of fascinating things about the human body this year, too, in relation to topics ranging from eye and uterus transplants to vitamin D levels and aging.

An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by cell.