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Adolescence has long been recognized as one of the most sensitive windows in brain development, a period when social experiences...

Heart surgeons in Poland have shown how a digital twin of a beating heart can do far more than guide...

Liver transplantation offers the last realistic chance of survival for many patients with end-stage alcohol-related liver cirrhosis, yet the road...

A drug already celebrated in cancer research circles for its ability to sabotage a cellular tagging system has now revealed...

Every step, hop, and jump you take sends a mechanical message to your skeleton, and for millions of postmenopausal women...

Every autonomous vehicle must answer two questions continuously and simultaneously: where am I, and what does the world around me...

From weightlifting to tai chi, not all movement is created equal when it comes to the aging brain. A new...

Zebra finches, the tiny Australian songbirds whose courtship melodies have long served as a model system for studying vocal learning,...

In a striking illustration of how a single genetic deletion can disrupt the body’s clotting cascade without ever putting a...

Scientists are proposing a new way to think about why cancer immunotherapy works for some patients and fails for others,...

Precision oncology has long promised a future in which each patient’s tumor is read like a molecular instruction manual, with...

Thyroid cancer is often described as one of the most treatable malignancies, with most differentiated tumors responding well to surgery...

Aging does not unfold at the same pace everywhere in the body, and one of the most ambitious attempts yet...

In advanced breast cancer, few clinical situations are as ominous as visceral crisis — the rapid, life-threatening spread of disease...

For more than a century, the adult human heart has been viewed as a terminally differentiated organ, incapable of meaningful...

Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction has long been celebrated as one of the most promising routes for turning waste emissions into...

The Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, has long posed a puzzle to evolutionary biologists and public health officials alike. Unlike...

In a discovery that reshapes how biologists think about cellular quality control, researchers have identified an entirely new mechanism by...

In one of the largest analyses of tumor genetics ever assembled, an international team of researchers has shown that the...

A new study published in Nature Health offers one of the most comprehensive pictures to date of why people in...