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Cancer drugs are designed to attack the molecular machinery that allows tumors to grow, divide, and spread. Yet once a drug enters a living cell,...

Long polymer chains are among the hidden structures that shape the modern world. They give plastics their strength, help biological materials organize themselves, and form...

Johns Hopkins scientists have created a molecular “time machine” that reconstructs how hundreds of hair follicles develop, offering an unprecedented view of organ formation at...

A cell that has become cancerous, aged or otherwise abnormal may appear to have crossed a biological point of no return. Once its internal molecular...

Dengue fever is entering a new era of clinical risk assessment as researchers seek to identify, as early as possible, which patients are likely to...

Aircraft could soon gain a far more sensitive sense of touch. A new study by Zhou, Wei, Xu and colleagues describes a piezoelectric sensor designed...

Apophis, a near-Earth asteroid roughly 340 meters wide, will sweep past Earth on April 13, 2029, in one of the closest encounters of its size...

Breast cancer patients receiving injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist therapy may be able to shift a significant part of their treatment from the clinic to the...

Researchers at Tampere University have developed a light-activated hydrogel platform that could make the construction of advanced biomaterials faster, simpler and far more adaptable. The...

BOSTON, MA — Britain’s decision to leave the European Union was followed by a rapid transformation in the way the country recruited doctors and nurses...

Inherited retinal disorders are among the most devastating genetic diseases affecting human vision. They damage the retina—the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye—and...

A new study reports a strategy for delivering gene-editing technology directly to human haematopoietic stem cells inside the body, using targeted lipid nanoparticles rather than...

For more than half a century, power-system resilience has been treated as a question with a relatively narrow answer: how well does the grid withstand...

A new study published in Nature Communications is putting artificial intelligence at the center of a difficult medical challenge: determining how severely Schistosoma japonicum has...

Atopic dermatitis is often described as a skin disease, but a new study suggests that its effects may be visible far beyond the itchy rashes...