The battle against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has just received a significant boost from an international team...

Emotions leave fingerprints in the body that no one can fully fake. Electrical ripples across the scalp, the steady drum...

Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being asked not just to generate medical conclusions but to judge whether other AI systems...

Chemotherapy has always been a delicate balancing act. Oncologists must deliver enough drug to destroy tumor cells, but not so...

Frailty, the state of heightened vulnerability that emerges as biological reserves dwindle with age, has become one of the most...

Pregnancy may be one of the most physiologically demanding experiences the human body can undergo, and a new review suggests...

When surgeons alter the plumbing of the human gut, the chemistry of the blood changes in ways that no single...

A team of engineers and surgeons in China has built a handheld surgical robot that brings robotic dexterity to laparoscopic...

Radiologists and artificial intelligence researchers in China have unveiled a machine learning framework that can predict the aggressiveness of the...

Cervical cancer remains one of the most preventable yet persistent malignancies worldwide, and every new insight into its molecular machinery...

Lung cancer tumors that respond well to targeted drugs often harbor a hidden population of cells that the drugs cannot...

In a development that is drawing attention across the fields of microbiology, ecology, and women’s health, researchers at the University...

A rare and particularly aggressive form of primary liver cancer may soon be easier to assess at the bedside, thanks...

Every year, tens of thousands of people across the Asia-Pacific region fall ill with scrub typhus, a potentially fatal febrile...

In the tropical lowlands and river valleys of Papua New Guinea, mosquitoes carry far more than the viruses that worry...

Researchers in India have developed a process that transforms sorghum stalks, an agricultural residue often discarded after grain harvest, into...

In a striking demonstration of how the chemical environment of the gut can dictate the fate of both microbes and...

In the earliest hours of a sea lamprey embryo’s life, something remarkable happens. As its cells divide, vast stretches of...

Every process that keeps a plant alive—from the immune responses that fend off pathogens to the signaling cascades that help...

A devastating fungal disease that can wipe out wheat harvests and poison the grain we eat has met a formidable...