A simple blood draw performed in the first weeks of chemotherapy may reveal whether metastatic breast cancer is responding to...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have rewritten the rules of modern cancer care. By blocking inhibitory receptors such as PD-1 and CTLA-4,...

Molecular descriptors sit at the heart of quantitative structure–activity and structure–property relationships, the computational frameworks that chemists and bioinformaticians use...

Fluorine is one of chemistry’s most indispensable elements, embedded in everything from antidepressants and asthma inhalers to lithium-ion batteries, refrigerants...

Artificial intelligence has taken another step into the veterinary clinic, this time by learning to read the same stained cytology...

Gunshot injuries remain one of the most visible and devastating consequences of prolonged armed conflict, and few places illustrate their...

In the sun-baked landscapes where the swallowtail butterfly Battus polydamas archidamas makes its home, caterpillars huddle together in clusters on...

For decades, computational biologists have relied on flat, Euclidean space to represent and compare biological sequences, from strands of DNA...

Transgenic crops engineered to produce insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) have transformed pest control across millions of...

A little-studied fragment of a protein best known for its role in blood vessel biology is stepping into the spotlight...

One of the long-standing puzzles in hypertension research concerns the role of the immune system in driving high blood pressure...

A scientific paper that claimed to reveal why a promising cancer drug can fail in lung cancer treatment has been...

Extreme heat and extreme cold are not experienced equally across society, and few environments illustrate that inequality as starkly as...

Milk is one of the most climate-sensitive commodities on Earth. Global production hovers between roughly 940 and 966 million tons...

An engineered oncolytic vaccinia virus that displays the interleukin-15 receptor alpha chain on the surface of infected tumor cells has...

For decades, anorexia nervosa has been studied largely through the lenses of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience, with researchers focusing on...

Alzheimer’s disease begins, in many patients, with a quiet erosion of the brain’s memory machinery long before any diagnosis is...

A sweeping review published in the Journal of Materials Science: Polymers charts how a material thousands of times thinner than...

High in the forested slopes of Khanspur, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan, mycologists have identified a mushroom species...

For decades, the diagnostic journey for a patient with swollen lymph nodes or an unexplained chest or abdominal mass has...