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For centuries, the resin of a small, scrubby tree that grows in the arid mountains of the Arabian Peninsula has occupied a near-mythical place in...

Coral-eating snails have long been notorious for devastating reefs across the Indo-Pacific, but scientists working in Indonesia have now caught them doing something no one...

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, better known as ARFID, has been formally recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders since 2013, yet clinicians...

When governments decide whether to pay for a new medicine, a vaccine, a screening program or a medical device, the decision ideally rests not on...

Chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus, the relentless and often debilitating itch that afflicts people on dialysis, has long been regarded primarily as a quality-of-life problem. A...

Melanoma remains one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant forms of human cancer, and although immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed outcomes for a subset of...

A simple blood protein measured during routine pregnancy testing may help doctors spot a hidden metabolic culprit behind recurrent miscarriage, according to new research from...

Mung beans have long been a staple of Asian cuisine, prized for their protein content and digestibility, but new research suggests they may hold far...

Millions of people with type 2 diabetes inject a long-acting form of insulin every day, trusting that their basal insulin regimen is keeping their blood...

Salt is quietly strangling wheat fields across the world, and a team of Turkish researchers has now peered deep inside the seedlings of two beloved...

Every new drug that reaches the pharmacy shelf owes its existence, at least in part, to a deceptively simple question: where, exactly, on a protein...

The soybean pod borer, Leguminivora glycinivorella, has long been one of the most destructive pests of soybean crops across China and its neighboring regions, boring...

Hospital nurses who took part in a structured, team-based learning programme built around participatory action research became measurably more autonomous, more proactive and more confident...

Inherited metabolic diseases are among the most feared diagnoses in pediatrics, capable of turning a healthy newborn into a critically ill infant within hours, yet...

Hypertension is one of the most common and most consequential chronic conditions in the United States, yet for millions of low-income, immigrant, and multilingual patients,...