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Beneath every step we take, soils hold one of the planet’s largest reservoirs of carbon, a vast, slow-moving bank of organic matter that quietly regulates...

For more than four decades, pathologists have glimpsed something unsettling under the microscope in the earliest stages of certain cancers: cells with nuclei far larger...

Twenty-five years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered evidence that the environments in...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism that helps explain why a small but devastating fraction of patients who take bisphosphonate medications develop osteonecrosis of...

In an era when childhood diseases are increasingly shaped by forces far beyond the clinic, the editors of Pediatric Research have issued a sweeping call...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism that drives the malignant progression of gastrointestinal stromal tumors, one of the most common sarcomas of the digestive...

Every year, thousands of babies are born with congenital heart disease, and for a growing number of them, the diagnosis arrives before birth. Fetal echocardiography...

Researchers in southern China have reported the first molecular detection and genetic characterization of two enteric unicellular microorganisms—Enterocytozoon bieneusi and Blastocystis—in farmed chukar partridges (Alectoris...

Microplastics are now everywhere in the environment, from the deepest ocean trenches to the soil beneath our feet, and scientists are racing to develop reliable...

ATP-binding cassette transporters have long been cast in a familiar role in leukemia biology: molecular pumps embedded in the cell membrane that spit chemotherapy drugs...

In a medical milestone that is drawing attention from pediatric heart specialists around the world, a surgical and intensive care team at the Children’s Hospital...

Adults living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders carry a substantially heavier burden of mental illness, suicidal behavior, and substance use than the general population, according...

Fatigue is one of the most common yet least understood symptoms in medicine, and a newly published review argues that a surprising part of the...

Fentanyl has become one of the most consequential substances in modern forensic pathology, yet a fundamental question haunts every medicolegal autopsy in which the synthetic...

The clock of a maize plant does not tick alone. A new study published in International Microbiology shows that the daily rhythms of gene expression...