Cancer remains one of the most formidable challenges in modern medicine, with nearly two million new diagnoses and roughly six...

Childhood stunting remains one of the most stubborn markers of global health inequality, and a new systematic review and meta-analysis...

The Maillard reaction has long been food science’s most famous double agent: the same browning chemistry that gives baked bread...

Mitochondria may be famous as the powerhouses of the cell, but a new study argues that they are also among...

At a conference hall in Amsterdam this past October, researchers gathered for the seventh International Conference on Epigenetics and Bioengineering,...

Goat meat is a staple protein across much of China, and the country’s indigenous goat breeds represent a genetic treasury...

For patients facing skin cancer surgery, the experience of lying awake on the operating table can be as consequential as...

Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease is one of the most perplexing conditions in paediatric orthopaedics. It strikes children by cutting off the blood...

Magnesium is the lightest structural metal in widespread industrial use, prized for its low density of roughly 1.74 grams per...

Atrazine, the most heavily used herbicide in Brazilian agriculture, has long been a double-edged sword: it keeps weeds out of...

When a patient’s heart fails so severely that neither drugs nor a single mechanical device can keep blood moving, intensive...

Chemists and biologists have long coveted liquiritigenin, a flavonoid pulled from the rhizomes of licorice plants that shows cardioprotective, antidiabetic,...

Soybean is one of the most important crops on the planet, supplying roughly a quarter of the world’s cooking oil...

A rare and stubbornly difficult category of brain tumors has long forced adult patients and their physicians into an uncomfortable...

An overactive thyroid is famous for making the heart race, but a new study suggests the damage may run deeper...

Non-fat yogurt has a problem. Strip away the milk fat and you strip away much of what makes yogurt taste...

For more than 70 million Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing people worldwide, everyday communication still depends on human interpreters or imperfect technology....

For more than half a century, one of the most powerful tools in environmentally friendly pest management has rested on...

For couples who go through in vitro fertilization, few outcomes are as dispiriting as the repeated failure of seemingly healthy...

CRISPR-Cas9 has transformed the life sciences by giving researchers a seemingly simple tool for cutting DNA at chosen locations, but...