Salivary glands are essential for everyday human functions —speaking, swallowing, tasting and protecting the mouth—yet they ...

Humans are fundamentally "musical animals"—and our capacity for music is rooted in biology, not just culture. This is the conclusion of new work by University of Amsterdam professor of Music Cognition ...

Associate Professor of Biology Ryan Petrie, PhD, was awarded a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to further his research on the molecular mechanisms that human ...

Timothy Mousseau, a USC professor with a PhD in biology, and his colleagues have begun conducting the only on-site research ...