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A multigene panel can reveal that a woman carries a pathogenic variant associated with elevated breast cancer risk, but new research suggests that receiving this...

A rare and notoriously aggressive form of bladder cancer may be more treatable than previously believed, according to a new real-world study from Mayo Clinic....

Graphene oxide is often described as graphene’s chemically expressive cousin: a carbon sheet decorated with oxygen-containing groups that make it dispersible in water but disrupt...

Clean water, safe food and rapid biological threat detection are often treated as separate challenges, but a new research project at George Mason University is...

Cancer immunotherapy has changed the way many tumors are treated by turning the patient’s immune system against malignant cells. One of its most powerful approaches,...

A microscopic mystery at the heart of next-generation spintronic materials has come into sharper focus. Using muon spin relaxation and rotation (µSR), an international research...

USC Researchers Receive $7.5 Million to Investigate PFAS Links to Liver and Endometrial Cancer Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the...

A new international study has identified a powerful link between drought across the world’s wheat-growing regions and the price of wheat on global markets, warning...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed the Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Quantum Sensing for Biophysics and Bioengineering, known as NSF QuBBE, with a...

A new genetic study is bringing the brain’s movement-control circuitry into sharper focus, suggesting that a person’s risk of developing sudden movement disorders after taking...

Parkinson’s disease has long been associated with the gradual loss of dopamine-producing neurons, but the molecular events that push these cells toward irreversible damage remain...

For decades, the decision to accept or reject a donor lung has depended on a narrow set of measurements taken under intense time pressure. Oxygenation,...

For patients living with ventricular tachycardia, the most dangerous part of the disease is often hidden inside electrically damaged heart tissue. Ventricular tachycardia, or VT,...

A hidden mechanical failure inside the earliest stages of life may help explain why fertility declines so sharply as females enter their mid-30s. A study...

Europe’s highest plant communities are getting warmer in character, but not necessarily because the climate above them is warming in lockstep. A new study published...