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Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer worldwide, and for most patients it is highly treatable when caught early. Yet the...

Invasive aspergillosis has long been understood as a menace confined to the profoundly immunosuppressed: patients battling leukaemia, enduring months of neutropenia, or recovering from solid...

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and prion disorders are among the most formidable challenges in modern medicine, largely because the damage they...

Human herpesviruses are among the most persistent pathogens in medicine, establishing lifelong infections that alternate between long periods of latency and episodes of productive replication...

Artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at reading the streams of numbers that modern sensors produce, but it has remained stubbornly bad at telling us...

Deep beneath the soybean fields now spreading across the Brazilian state of Piauí lies a soil whose story has long been told incorrectly. A new...

Treatment resistance remains one of the most stubborn obstacles in modern oncology, and a comprehensive new review published in the journal Molecular Cancer argues that...

Surgeons in Japan have reported a striking case of a 61-year-old man who survived emergency mitral valve replacement after acute severe mitral regurgitation drove him...

Amphotericin B has long been regarded as one of the most powerful antifungal agents in clinical medicine, a drug of last resort for life-threatening invasive...

Every leaf faces a dilemma. The microscopic pores called stomata that dot the plant epidermis are simultaneously the gateways for carbon dioxide intake and the...

Carbon fibers have long been the quiet backbone of modern engineering, hiding inside aircraft wings, wind turbine blades and defense hardware, where their extraordinary strength-to-weight...

When plants double their entire genome, the result is often assumed to be a hardier organism, better armed against drought, salinity, and other environmental assaults....

More than one in five patients admitted to a major Angolan hospital with tumors of the brain and other intracranial structures died before discharge, according...

Drug-induced seizures remain one of the most disruptive safety failures in modern pharmaceutical research, derailing promising molecules across therapy areas as diverse as the central...

For nearly a century, chemists have puzzled over the exact location on a catalyst’s surface where molecules transform. Now a team of researchers in Belgium,...