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...
Wheat feeds billions of people, but the hidden half of the plant—the root system that anchors it and draws water and nutrients from the soil—has...
Willow trees have quietly shaped human medicine for millennia, from ancient brews of willow bark to the synthesis of aspirin, yet the chemistry behind this...
Adults living with type 1 diabetes for decades show subtle dips in memory and processing speed, but a new study suggests their midlife metabolic health...
