A systematic review published in New Microbes and New Infections argues that the world’s best defence against the next pandemic...

A traditional Chinese medicine capsule long used in clinical practice for cardiovascular complaints has shown a striking ability to shrink...

For decades, cancer biologists have suspected that the crushing and stretching forces generated by a growing tumour help drive its...

Some of the most important allies in the fight against hunger are invisible to the naked eye. In a laboratory...

Chewing tobacco contributed to an estimated 251,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, according to the most comprehensive assessment of smokeless tobacco...

Deciding when a child with a neuromuscular disease should begin non-invasive ventilation is one of the most consequential judgment calls...

Antibiotic residues drifting through rivers, wastewater effluents and even drinking water sources have become one of the most stubborn challenges...

Every tissue in the body is a work in progress. Cells divide, mature, migrate, and change identity in response to...

Every heartbeat, breath, and blood-pressure reading streamed from a smartwatch is a message in transit. In a wireless body area...

A flavonoid extracted from a plant long used in traditional Chinese medicine may act on a previously underappreciated oxidative stress...

For millions of people who finish cancer treatment, the end of therapy is not the end of the story. Scars,...

A provocative new review in GeroScience argues that a familiar weapon of cancer immunotherapy could be repurposed against one of...

Scientists have transformed an agricultural waste product into a remarkably versatile nanomaterial that can simultaneously destroy textile dyes in polluted...

Fungi are quietly winning a war that most people never see. They destroy between 10 and 23 percent of crops...

Wearable electronics have long been haunted by an awkward compromise. Materials that stretch like rubber tend to conduct ions poorly,...

Every year, Japan culls well over a million wild sika deer and wild boar to protect farmland and forests, yet...

Ovarian cancer remains one of the most lethal gynecologic malignancies, and a new laboratory study suggests that an unexpected ally...

A rigorous randomised trial presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Milan...

Starch is one of the most abundant energy sources in the human diet, but it carries a stubborn flaw: once...

Wood is one of the most abundant materials on Earth, and it is also one of the most stubborn. Its...