A significant milestone in the ongoing transformation of scholarly communication was reached this month as JMIR Publications, the Toronto-based independent publisher specializing in digital health...
The placenta is one of the most remarkable engineering feats of human biology, building an intricate network of fetal blood vessels in a matter of...
For more than a century, paleontologists and evolutionary biologists have marveled at the way terrestrial mammalian carnivores keep reinventing the same body plans. Saber-toothed predators...
Tartary buckwheat has long been prized as a functional food, packed with bioactive compounds such as rutin and other flavonoids that have drawn intense interest...
A single infusion of a gene therapy delivered within the first months of life continues to transform the course of one of the most devastating...
Radioactive cesium is one of the most stubborn contaminants in the nuclear waste stream. It slips through the concrete vaults meant to hold it, largely...
Every improvement in a crop, whether it is a heavier ear of wheat, a more disease-resistant rice plant, or a maize hybrid that endures drought,...
Diazomethane is one of organic chemistry’s most useful and most feared reagents. The simple molecule CH2N2 is a superb methylating agent, capable of converting carboxylic...
In a development that sits at the unlikely intersection of computer vision, sports analytics and deep learning, researchers have shown that the tactical story of...
In a study that could reshape how clinicians think about the inflammatory underpinnings of breast cancer, researchers in Egypt have found that two genes at...
Pemphigus vulgaris is one of the most feared diseases in dermatology, a rare autoimmune condition in which the body’s own antibodies turn against the glue...
Phosphorus is one of those elements that rarely makes headlines, yet civilization depends on it almost entirely. The world’s food supply is built on phosphate...
Scientists in Australia have developed a robust and reproducible genetic transformation system for Brassica carinata, an ancient East African oilseed that is rapidly emerging as...
Micronutrients such as iron, zinc, copper, manganese and boron have long been treated by agricultural science as little more than yield-boosters — elements needed in...
Autoimmune encephalitis is one of the most perplexing conditions in modern neurology, a disease in which the body’s own immune system turns against the brain,...
