Few topics provoke as much concern as the perception that puberty is beginning earlier than ever. While synthetic ...

In the first-ever genome-scale analysis of the puberty process in humans, researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) outline distinct and critical changes to ...

Research on fruit flies has implications for this poorly understood process in humans. All animals start out as a single-celled organism and then start growing. At some point, of course, they need to ...

Adolescence and puberty are not the same. Adolescence is that 10- to 12-year period of social and psychological growth that transforms the dependent child (beginning in late elementary or early middle ...

Puberty can be hard on the kid going through it and the parent trying to help them. Your child is going through physical changes that can be awkward and embarrassing. As a parent, you may struggle ...

All animals start out as a single-celled organism and then start growing. At some point, of course, they need to stop getting bigger, but the process by which this happens is poorly understood. New ...