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A large analysis published in the British Journal of Cancer has examined one of the more puzzling relationships in breast cancer epidemiology: the observation that...

Cysteine has long been celebrated as one of biology’s most protective molecules. As a sulfur-bearing amino acid, it builds proteins, feeds the production of the...

Chemists have long chased a simple goal: build the complex nitrogen-rich molecules that modern medicine and electronics depend on, without the toxic solvents, harsh heat...

Scientists in Chennai, India, have transformed the leaves of a humble kitchen herb into a weapon against some of medicine’s most stubborn enemies. In a...

A career changer who types “I want to interpret big data” into a conventional guidance platform is likely to be met with silence or irrelevant...

For decades, extracellular vesicles were viewed as a signature of animal biology—tiny membrane-bound packages that cells release to shuttle proteins, lipids, and genetic material to...

In a move that could reshape how doctors sample suspicious lung lesions around the world, a coalition of more than ten leading Chinese medical societies...

Radiation therapy remains one of the most widely deployed weapons in oncology, yet its effectiveness is routinely undermined by a frustrating biological reality: many cancer...

Refrigeration and air conditioning consume an enormous share of global electricity, and the chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants at the heart of conventional cooling remain among the most...

Proteomics researchers rely on tandem mass spectrometry to identify the peptides present in a biological sample, but one of the field’s most stubborn challenges has...

Researchers in India have created a new solid polymer electrolyte that blends a little-known plant-derived biopolymer with polyvinyl alcohol and magnesium chloride, achieving an ionic...

Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the deadliest malignancies worldwide, and clinicians have long struggled with a deceptively...

A newly developed alpha-synuclein positron emission tomography ligand, labeled with tritium as ³H-M503-1619, has shown a striking ability to bind alpha-synuclein aggregates in human postmortem...

A new implementation study from northwestern Nigeria has brought together three often-separate strands of lymphatic filariasis control—community knowledge and behavior, mosquito insecticide resistance, and molecular...

Deep learning has delivered some of the most striking technical victories in modern medicine. Neural networks can now spot lung nodules on computed tomography scans,...