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Swallowing is one of those bodily functions most people perform hundreds of times a day without a second thought, yet it depends on a remarkably...

For the first time, scientists have captured direct, whole-brain evidence that computerized cognitive training physically strengthens the aging brain’s cholinergic system—the network of acetylcholine-producing nerve...

Aging is often described as the accumulation of damage inside our cells, but a growing body of evidence suggests that a crucial part of the...

G carriers" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" > A single change in mitochondrial DNA, one letter swapped for another in a gene carried by thousands of families across...

A team of biomedical engineers in Halifax, Canada, has demonstrated that a low-cost, handheld 3D ultrasound system can map the contours of the femoral head...

MRI scans of the brain are revealing subtle but measurable structural and functional changes in survivors of intimate partner violence, according to a new scoping...

Acute liver failure is one of medicine’s most unforgiving emergencies. When large numbers of hepatocytes, the liver’s principal working cells, die within days, the organ...

Forensic genetics has long relied on a workhorse technology that, despite decades of refinement, has always had a fundamental blind spot. Capillary electrophoresis, the gold-standard...

CAR T-cell therapy has produced some of the most striking remissions in modern medicine against B-cell leukemias and lymphomas, yet acute myeloid leukemia has stubbornly...

In the war against one of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases, a new front is opening in an unexpected place: the gut of a...

Chicken infectious anemia virus (CIAV), one of the most damaging immunosuppressive pathogens in global poultry production, is undergoing an aggressive evolutionary shift in Egypt, and...

The flavor of a glass of sheep’s milk, long assumed to be dictated primarily by the animal’s genetics and diet, turns out to be shaped...

In a finding that could reshape how scientists think about one of the world’s most persistent parasitic infections, researchers in Japan have uncovered evidence that...

In a discovery that could reshape how industries break down stubborn biological waste, researchers at Ghent University have identified a single enzyme from a deep-sea...

The human breast is far more than a uniform sheet of milk-producing tissue. It is a mosaic of distinct epithelial cell types—contractile basal cells, committed...