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One of the long-standing puzzles in hypertension research concerns the role of the immune system in driving high blood pressure and the organ damage that...

A scientific paper that claimed to reveal why a promising cancer drug can fail in lung cancer treatment has been retracted, after the journal’s editor...

Extreme heat and extreme cold are not experienced equally across society, and few environments illustrate that inequality as starkly as prison. A new study published...

Milk is one of the most climate-sensitive commodities on Earth. Global production hovers between roughly 940 and 966 million tons a year, and even small...

An engineered oncolytic vaccinia virus that displays the interleukin-15 receptor alpha chain on the surface of infected tumor cells has shown striking ability to reshape...

For decades, anorexia nervosa has been studied largely through the lenses of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience, with researchers focusing on measurable symptoms such as restriction...

Alzheimer’s disease begins, in many patients, with a quiet erosion of the brain’s memory machinery long before any diagnosis is made. Among the first structures...

A sweeping review published in the Journal of Materials Science: Polymers charts how a material thousands of times thinner than a human hair is quietly...

High in the forested slopes of Khanspur, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan, mycologists have identified a mushroom species previously unknown to science. The...

For decades, the diagnostic journey for a patient with swollen lymph nodes or an unexplained chest or abdominal mass has almost invariably ended in an...

A new investigation drawing on the ECHO.CA.IL cohorts has examined a class of industrial chemicals that most expectant parents have never heard of, yet encounter...

Regulatory T cells, the immune system’s built-in mediators of self-tolerance, have long fascinated immunologists because of a seeming paradox. They are highly specialized peacekeepers that...

Electronic manufacturing has long been divided by a stark economic line. On one side sit the large electronics manufacturing services companies, which deploy industrial-grade in-circuit...

Tea is more than a beverage in China; it is a pillar of the rural economy. As the world’s largest tea producer, China depends on...

Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common primary cancer of the liver, remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related death both in Taiwan and around the...