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The smooth texture of ice cream, the uniform consistency of salad dressing, the long shelf life of packaged bread — all of these are made...

Hodgkin lymphoma is often described as one of modern oncology’s great success stories. Most patients diagnosed with this cancer of the lymphatic system are cured,...

Dexmedetomidine, a sedative drug widely embraced in the care of patients with burst brain aneurysms, does not appear to improve long-term recovery or prevent the...

Mathematicians have built a new computational model of Alzheimer’s disease that treats memory—not as a metaphor but as a mathematical property—using an exotic form of...

Salt stress is one of the most damaging abiotic constraints facing global agriculture, rendering millions of hectares of cropland unproductive and steadily eroding yields of...

In a striking reminder of how much can hide inside two neighboring letters of the genetic code, researchers in Iran have identified a rare complex...

Cancer treatment has long been constrained by a deceptively simple problem: getting enough drug into a tumor without poisoning the rest of the body. Surgery,...

In a development that could reshape how scientists approach two of the planet’s most stubborn environmental problems at once, an international team of researchers has...

A new class of engineered nanoparticles that home in on the endoplasmic reticulum of cancer cells and, when illuminated, devastate tumors from within has shown...

Delivering devastating medical diagnoses is among the most emotionally charged tasks in modern healthcare, yet a new study from Turkey suggests that the nurses who...

When drought strikes a farming region, the instinctive policy response is often to send agronomists, distribute drought-resistant seeds, or build irrigation infrastructure. A new study...

Latin America’s cancer burden may be far more preventable than previously understood, according to a sweeping new systematic review and meta-analysis that synthesizes, for the...

Artificial intelligence can now tell where a humble medicinal root came from, and the technique is exposing just how much geography shapes what ends up...

For millions of people living with Type 2 diabetes, a cancer diagnosis brings a double burden—and a new study from Finland suggests that the burden...

Respiratory syncytial virus, better known as RSV, has long been one of the most feared words in paediatric medicine, a pathogen so contagious that nearly...