Fertilization is usually portrayed as a microscopic race: millions of sperm cells competing to reach a single egg, with only...

People with diabetes who develop both heart failure and end-stage kidney disease face one of medicine’s most difficult cardiovascular challenges....

A new award presentation in Pediatric Research frames misinformation as a direct threat to child survival, arguing that scientific knowledge...

Mitochondria are often described as the power stations of the cell, but they are also strategic decision-makers in cellular survival....

A subtle change in the way older adults walk may offer an important clue about a condition that combines two...

A new scientific reply has reignited debate over how researchers should interpret the relationship between outdoor air pollution and lung...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a possible biological link between ketamine, psychedelic compounds...

Bentham Science Publishers has announced the launch of Current Surgical Endoscopy, a new peer-reviewed journal designed to track the rapid...

Scientists have created an unusually ordered version of a chemically complex alloy that could help reveal how advanced electrocatalysts work...

A review of 78 international studies is challenging some of the most persistent beliefs about breastfeeding during the first days...

Biodiversity data are accumulating at an extraordinary rate, yet the information needed to understand ecological change often remains fragmented, inconsistent,...

Influenza transmission within households is shaped by far more than whether one person becomes infected, according to a study by...

Alveolar capillary dysplasia is one of medicine’s most devastating diagnostic puzzles: newborns appear to have lungs, but their microscopic architecture...

Pancreatic cancer may be one of the most difficult cancers to treat, but new research points to a microscopic event...

China’s transition toward a sustainable food system will depend less on isolated technological breakthroughs than on whether the country can...

Ketamine has long been known as a powerful anesthetic, but its influence on the brain extends far beyond the operating...

Johns Hopkins researchers have validated an artificial intelligence-powered blood test that detected liver cancer in patients from two geographically and...

Chinese scientists have identified an exceptionally rare isotope, hafnium-153, during the commissioning phase of the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility...

Protein-fortified foods are rapidly moving from specialist nutrition products into the mainstream, appearing in cereals, coffee drinks, snack bars and...

Fluoride is usually discussed in the context of toothpaste, drinking water, or industrial pollution. At the cellular level, however, it...