Biliary tract cancer, a family of rare and aggressive malignancies arising from the epithelial cells of the bile ducts and...

In a quiet laboratory, a tiny translucent fish embryo beats its heart for the first time. What looks like a...

Tiny robots small enough to swim through the bloodstream have long promised a future in which drugs are delivered to...

A 14-year-old corn snake has become the subject of a remarkable veterinary case report that offers one of the most...

For more than two decades, virtually every brain-imaging study that claims to have located a thought, an emotion, or a...

In the humid tropics of South Asia, millions of smallholder dairy farmers feed their cattle rations built from a familiar...

Anyone who has ever tried to pull a specific book out from the middle of a crowded shelf knows that...

Acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, remains one of the most feared conditions in intensive care medicine. It strikes rapidly,...

Two plants with long histories in traditional medicine are now drawing attention from a very different direction: the laboratory bench...

The world set itself an audacious deadline. When United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, they...

The blockbuster drugs that have transformed the treatment of diabetes and obesity may be poised for an unlikely second act:...

A team of researchers from the Universidad de Sonora in Mexico and the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in Spain...

Every year, one in three adults over the age of 65 experiences a fall, and the consequences can be devastating:...

Predicting whether a cancer patient will respond to therapy has long been one of oncology’s most consequential gambles. For people...

A tiny molecular scissor that once barely worked in human cells has been transformed into a high-performance genome-editing platform, thanks...

For decades, autism spectrum disorder was considered a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition, a diagnosis that once given would follow a person...

Diabetic foot ulcers are among the most feared complications of type 2 diabetes, a wound that refuses to heal, threatens...

For decades, the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea has rested on a mechanical logic: hold the airway open with pressurized...

Spinal muscular atrophy has long been understood as a disease of motor neurons, a genetic condition in which the progressive...

For millions of people living with knee osteoarthritis, treatment has long meant a choice between managing symptoms and waiting for...