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A new study has uncovered the molecular machinery that allows the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to sense hostile conditions in human blood and convert itself...

Engineers and computer scientists face a familiar dilemma when designing almost anything complex: improving one objective often means sacrificing another. A faster aircraft engine may...

Cancers that affect women exclusively—breast, ovarian, cervical, and endometrial—are often treated in oncology as four separate organ sites, each with its own research silos, screening...

Influenza B virus has long lived in the shadow of its influenza A counterpart, attracting less attention from researchers and public health authorities despite its...

A rare and devastating inherited immune disorder may have a new path toward treatment, thanks to a proof-of-concept study demonstrating that CRISPR base editors can...

Researchers at Zhejiang University and the Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power have unveiled a new framework that addresses a subtle but pervasive...

A sweeping new review argues that a technology capable of reading a soil’s chemistry from the way it reflects light could transform how the world...

Calcitriol, the hormonally active form of vitamin D, has long been suspected of harboring anticancer properties, but the precise molecular circuitry it exploits in skin...

For more than a decade, hospitals around the world have experimented with a simple idea: instead of asking every patient with a broken bone to...

Haemorrhagic septicemia, an acute and often fatal bacterial disease of cattle and buffalo caused by Pasteurella multocida serotypes B:2 and E:2, continues to defy decades...

The construction of a virus has long been imagined as a feat of molecular engineering so efficient that it borders on the miraculous. In a...

Pancreatic cancer remains one of medicine’s most unforgiving adversaries, claiming lives at a rate that has made it the third leading cause of cancer-related death...

A sweeping new analysis of nationally representative survey data suggests that two of the most common features of modern adolescent life, insufficient sleep and erratic...

Cultured meat has long promised a future in which real muscle tissue is grown in bioreactors rather than harvested from slaughtered animals, yet the industry...

Imagine a child waving a finger through the air and watching a rough, invisible doodle bloom into a polished claymation-style picture on screen. That vision...