Cigarette smoke is best known for damaging the lungs, triggering inflammatory cascades that can impair breathing and accelerate disease. But mounting evidence suggests that smoke...
Preterm infants arrive with unique vulnerabilities, and the first nourishment they receive is more than calories—it’s a time-sensitive biological instruction manual. In a new study,...
Xuan Wang, an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing, has received NSF funding for a...
A Mayo Clinic–led international phase 3 trial reports that a new intravesical oncolytic immunotherapy, cretostimogene grenadenorepvec, may help many people with high-risk, BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder...
A new type of fire-safe coating is turning to nature for inspiration, using a skin-like design to overcome a major weakness of many flame-retardant materials:...
Viral Science News Today, clinicians treating sickle cell disease (SCD) are getting a new playbook aimed at a problem that has long been underestimated: developmental...
Osteoporosis steals bone strength over time, leaving millions worldwide more vulnerable to fractures and disability. While today’s therapies can slow loss or stimulate growth, many...
Migration reactions are a cornerstone of chemistry, letting molecules reorganize themselves to reach positions that can be difficult to access by conventional synthesis. While chemists...
A new study published in Nature Communications reports a low-burden AI method that can flag early cognitive impairment across countries by learning from everyday patterns...
A new analysis of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) timelines is shining a spotlight on how and when critically ill children deteriorate—and whether this pattern...
Researchers at the International Centre for Translational Eye Research (ICTER) have built a prototype optical coherence tomography (OCT) system that maps how the cornea deforms...
Wearable biosensors are getting better at reading our bodies, but one problem keeps sabotaging real-world accuracy: staying in place. Skin is rarely a smooth, static...
Remdesivir may offer benefits that extend well beyond the initial days of COVID-19 in adults living with kidney transplants, according to a target trial emulation...
Salt stress is rapidly eroding crop productivity worldwide, and medicinal plants are not spared. For Salvia miltiorrhiza, salinization threatens both survival and the biochemical machinery...
A new Nature Immunology study reveals that the human lungs harbor a long-lived “reservoir” of tissue-resident memory T cells (T_RM), poised to react immediately to...
