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Deep inside the intervertebral disc — the resilient cushion that sits between the vertebrae of the spine — a small...

One of the most striking paradoxes in cancer biology is that tumor cells frequently consume glucose at a far higher...

A scientific publishing drama has unfolded in the pages of Polymer Bulletin, where the Editor-in-Chief has issued an Editorial Expression...

Aging has become a product. Across North America and Europe, companies now sell direct-to-consumer epigenetic tests that estimate a customer’s...

Artificial intelligence is no longer simply a tool that social scientists borrow from computer science. According to a sweeping new...

Praziquantel, a drug that has protected hundreds of millions of people against parasitic flatworm infections for decades, may harbor a...

The genomes of true frogs have long puzzled geneticists. Amphibians are famous for carrying some of the largest and most...

Online shoppers scrolling through a popular product on a major e-commerce platform may face thousands of customer reviews, each expressing...

India’s rice research establishment has added a new name to its catalogue of hybrid varieties, with the formal notification of...

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in many countries, and the moment of diagnosis triggers a...

Electrochemical sensors, the quiet workhorses behind the humble glucose test strip, are undergoing a transformation that could reshape how and...

Designing a polymerase chain reaction assay that reliably amplifies one stretch of DNA is a solved problem in most molecular...

A false claim can circle the globe before the truth has finished typing its rebuttal, and one of the most...

Wheat may owe part of its hidden armor to an unlikely ally growing beside it. A new glasshouse study published...

For millions of people living with colorectal cancer, one of the most persistent questions after treatment ends is deceptively simple:...

For decades, the body mass index has served as the gatekeeper of obesity medicine, a single number dividing patients into...

Chemists in Pakistan have shown that the secret to extracting powerful antioxidant compounds from the leaves of the lemon-scented eucalyptus...

Deep in the steaming runoff channels of Taiwan’s hot springs, a group of microbes has been quietly rewriting the rules...

Every spacecraft that tumbles, spins, or reorients itself in orbit does so according to a property that engineers cannot afford...

Spinal ependymomas are rare tumors arising from the ependymal cells that line the central canal of the spinal cord, and...