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For decades, the story of cancer drug delivery has been dominated by chemistry: better ligands, smarter polymers, more potent payloads....

Artificial intelligence has transformed biomedical research over the past decade, but most AI systems in biology remain confined to narrow...

A sugar found in human breast milk may hold the key to preventing one of the world’s leading causes of...

Sturgeons are among the oldest surviving lineages of bony fish on Earth, having first appeared roughly 200 million years ago...

For decades, intensive care units have been battlegrounds against some of medicine’s most formidable adversaries: bacteria that shrug off nearly...

Long before science could sequence a genome, brewers in Japan were unknowingly running one of the world’s longest artificial evolution...

In the arid highlands of northwestern China, the small red berry known as gouqi, or Lycii Fructus, has been prized...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists approach one of the most stubborn consequences of growing old, researchers have...

When a 69-year-old man arrived at a hospital in Burkina Faso vomiting blood and complaining of diffuse abdominal pain, the...

Pancreatic cancer has long been one of medicine’s most stubborn adversaries, a disease so aggressive and so difficult to detect...

Jackfruit, the sprawling tropical tree that produces the world’s largest tree-borne fruit, has long been constrained by a single vulnerability:...

Zapping the brain’s motor cortex with mild electrical current has become one of the most popular tools in human neuroscience,...

Orf virus, the cause of a highly contagious skin disease in sheep and goats, has been genetically mapped for the...

For women recovering from breast cancer, the side effects of treatment often linger long after therapy ends: weight gain, fatigue,...

Cambodia has driven its malaria burden down to a fraction of what it was less than a decade ago, but...

One of the enduring mysteries of the COVID-19 pandemic has been why sub-Saharan Africa, home to more than a billion...

What actually makes a nurse engaged at work? A new study from China suggests the answer lies less in the...

Brazil’s largest real-world evaluation of the TAK-003 dengue vaccine has delivered a verdict that public health officials around the world...

Europe’s doctors and nurses are carrying a mental health burden that rivals the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and...

Health inequalities remain one of the most stubborn problems facing modern medicine, and primary care sits at the front line...