After the Enlightenment, most anatomical studies were conducted in the interest of physiology. That is, because the main structures of the body were already sufficiently known, the focus of research shifted toward learning the functions of these...

The history of physiology—the discipline concerned with the functioning of plants—can be organized around the discovery of several key processes. One of the first physiological questions to be studied scientifically was how plants obtain...

Modern anatomical science, the rebirth of the empirical anatomy that had been unknown in the West since Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), is usually said to have begun in 1543 with the publication of De humani corporis fabrica (On the Structure of the Human...

Physiology is the study of how living things function. It encompasses the most basic unit of living things, the cell, and the most complex organs and organ systems, such as the brain or endocrine system. The word "physiology" was first...

Physiology (from Greek: φυσις, physis, “nature, origin”; and λόγος, logos, "speech" lit. "to talk about the nature (of things)") is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. Physiology has...

Endocrine Physiology, by Balint Kacsoh, 741 pp, with illus, $34.95, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill (telephone: 800-7224726), 2000, ISBN 0-07-034432-9 Type of Book: A single-authored text on endocrine physiology. Scope of Book: This review of the basics of molecular endocrinology includes sections covering each...

Anthony F. Jahn and Joseph Santos-Sacchi, editors. Second edition. Hard cover, illustrated, indexed, 689 pages, 2001. Singular, San Diego, Calif, $89.95. Purpose: To show, 13 years after the first edition, that which is relevant in the physiology of the ear regarding research and...

Excerpts from the citation awarding the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine to U.S. citizens Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Briton Sir Martin J. Evans for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a technology known as gene targeting in mice.The process has helped...

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation:_ 2007: Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies of the United States and Martin J. Evans of the United Kingdom, for their discoveries leading to a powerful technique...