The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research has retracted a 2015 paper that reported that the...

Blood plasma is often described as the most information-rich liquid in the human body, a fluid that carries molecular echoes...

Malaria remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet, and the tools used to fight it are steadily...

One of the most stubborn obstacles in cancer immunotherapy is not the tumor cell itself but the cellular entourage that...

Deep inside the seeds and roots of Ethiopia’s mung bean plants, researchers have uncovered a collection of bacteria that may...

Quantum computers promise computations that no classical machine could match, but the qubits they run on are fragile things. Every...

Bisphenol A, the once-ubiquitous plastic hardener that still lingers in food-can linings, thermal receipts, and countless household products, has long...

Plant cells live in a world of whispers. Unable to move, they coordinate growth, immunity and development through a dense...

Welding thick steel plates is one of those deceptively simple industrial operations that hides a ferocious physics problem. When an...

Radiation therapy has always been a discipline of exquisite precision, a practice in which millimeters and milligrays separate cure from...

In the northern Swedish county of Västerbotten, a remarkable longitudinal experiment in public health is quietly unfolding. Roughly a decade...

Rice paddies feed billions of people, but they also leak enormous quantities of methane into the atmosphere. Now a team...

A 55-year-old woman in northeastern China developed a life-threatening viral illness after being bitten by a Siberian weasel, and clinicians...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been framed as a problem of protein misbehavior: amyloid-beta plaques accumulating between neurons and tau tangles...

Prediabetes has long been treated as a warning light on the dashboard of metabolic health, a signal that diabetes may...

Every night, millions of people with obstructive sleep apnea experience the same silent assault: their airway collapses, their oxygen levels...

A deceptively simple thought experiment is rattling the foundations of AI ethics. Suppose an artificial intelligence system is designed in...

Surgeons in Japan have developed a refined hand-sewing method for connecting blood vessels that they say delivers the safety benefits...

A bacterium isolated from bentonite clay deposits in southeastern Spain is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how microbes...

Antiretroviral therapy has transformed HIV from a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition, but the benefits of treatment depend...