Johns Hopkins researchers have validated an artificial intelligence-powered blood test that detected liver cancer in patients from two geographically and biologically distinct populations, while also...
Chinese scientists have identified an exceptionally rare isotope, hafnium-153, during the commissioning phase of the High Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) in Huizhou, Guangdong Province....
Protein-fortified foods are rapidly moving from specialist nutrition products into the mainstream, appearing in cereals, coffee drinks, snack bars and even bottled water. But a...
Fluoride is usually discussed in the context of toothpaste, drinking water, or industrial pollution. At the cellular level, however, it is a potent toxin. The...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, is a relentlessly progressive lung disease in which healthy tissue is gradually replaced by stiff, scar-like material. As fibrosis advances,...
A bedside technology that maps how air, fluid and blood move through the lungs may be poised to become a more important tool in pediatric...
Agriculture may be entering a new era in which crops are judged not only by how much food they produce, but by how many ecological...
The cloud is not floating in some distant wilderness. It is taking shape alongside highways, neighborhoods, power corridors and former industrial sites in and around...
A pair of famously poisonous plants may hold the blueprint for a new generation of medicines. Researchers from Michigan State University and the Czech Academy...
Water quality is becoming one of the defining environmental challenges of the 21st century, as climate change, urban expansion, agricultural intensification, and rising industrial activity...
A $1.5 million grant has been awarded to University of Rhode Island neuroscientist William Van Nostrand to investigate one of the most dangerous and least...
The human genome contains more than 20,000 genes, yet most cells use only a fraction of them at any given moment. How cells decide which...
A new study published in Nature Communications has drawn attention to a deceptively simple question with potentially far-reaching consequences: can the amount of sugar encountered...
A new perspective in Pediatric Research is drawing attention to a problem that often hides in plain sight: medicine cannot reliably diagnose, compare, or treat...
Gallbladder cancer may have acquired a new molecular clue, according to a study reporting that the protein C2ORF68 helps malignant cells avoid programmed cell death....
