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Tetralogy of Fallot was once regarded primarily as a childhood surgical problem: close the holes, relieve the obstruction to blood...

A rare and potentially fatal complication of long-term mechanical heart support has drawn attention to an overlooked source of clinical...

Writing, buttoning a shirt, picking up a coin or holding a utensil may look effortless, but each action depends on...

A new study published in Nature Aging reports that mice lacking the enzyme cGAS develop signs of premature aging, accompanied...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed cancer treatment by releasing molecular brakes that otherwise restrain T cells, yet their benefits remain...

For decades, clinicians have relied on cardiac troponin as the central biochemical signal of heart-muscle injury. When troponin levels rise...

A new study is turning one of organic chemistry’s most familiar ideas—the stability of aromatic rings—into the starting point for...

A new method reported in Nature Cell Biology is offering scientists an unusually detailed view of how chemical modifications are...

A hidden link between microbial chemistry and animal nutrition has emerged from a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution,...

Psychiatric diagnosis may soon become less dependent on drawing rigid boundaries between disorders that frequently overlap in symptoms, biology and...

Conflict-related sexual violence in Colombia did not follow a uniform geographic or historical pattern, according to a new study that...

A previously underappreciated population of immature T cells may help explain why type 2 inflammation in the lungs can persist...

Superconducting quantum technology has just taken a significant step toward becoming easier to manufacture at scale. Researchers have demonstrated that...

Proteins are often described as the machines of biology, but designing one from scratch remains an extraordinary challenge. A sequence...

Atomic-spin-based comagnetometers have long served as exceptionally sensitive instruments for measuring magnetic fields and testing some of the deepest assumptions...

A single impurity in an atomically thin semiconductor can behave like a microscopic solar cell, according to a new study...

A new study has captured something physicists have been trying to see directly for years: excitons trapped inside the repeating...

Fingerprint authentication has long depended on a digital chain of custody: a sensor captures a fingerprint, software converts the image...

Aging brains may be vulnerable to a chemical change so small that it can be measured at the level of...

A new study in Nature Synthesis has spotlighted a potentially powerful way to edit organic molecules at one of chemistry’s...