Alabama sits at the center of one of the most stubborn cancer inequity crises in the United States. A new...

Rare genetic disorders affect more than 300 million people worldwide, yet for roughly 95 percent of them there is no...

Uranium is one of the most consequential contaminants that can enter a water supply, and its presence is difficult to...

Bone is not the inert scaffold it appears to be. Throughout life, it is continuously dismantled and rebuilt by two...

For more than two decades, psychologists have probed the hidden associations inside the human mind with a deceptively simple tool:...

University students are famously bad at feeding themselves, but a new study from Brazil offers one of the more detailed...

Liver cancer rarely arises in a healthy organ. In most cases, hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver...

For decades, the design of nanoparticle drug delivery systems has been an exercise in patient, expensive trial and error. Formulation...

A thin film that dissolves on the tongue in seconds, delivering a prized antioxidant without water, pills, or syringes, has...

When bacteria invade the body, macrophages are among the first defenders on the scene. These immune cells engulf pathogens, sound...

Audio is everywhere in the digital world, from streaming platforms and voice assistants to medical dictation and confidential business calls,...

Flavonoid C-glycosides occupy a curious corner of food chemistry: they are abundant in some of the world’s most familiar plant...

Inflammatory bowel disease, encompassing Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is rising at an alarming pace worldwide, and its roots lie...

For more than three decades, amyloid has been the organizing principle of Alzheimer’s disease research. The sticky protein fragment, which...

A team of researchers at Tianjin University has developed a scalable process that converts the mycelium of the filamentous fungus...

When it comes to mosquito-borne disease, the bite is where everything begins. Viruses such as dengue, West Nile, and chikungunya...

In the strange world of one-dimensional quantum magnets, the elementary carriers of magnetism refuse to behave like ordinary particles. In...

Microplastics have turned up in yet another staple of the global diet, and this time the evidence comes with unusually...

A compound drawn from one of the most storied plants in traditional Chinese medicine may hold unexpected power against a...

The transition from medical trainee to junior faculty member is one of the most disorienting career shifts in academic medicine,...