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For decades, crop breeding has focused on the visible organism: larger seeds, stronger stems, faster growth, resistance to pathogens and improved tolerance to drought or...

A child’s heartbeat can reveal a great deal long before a scan or blood test does. Yet the traditional tool for detecting cardiac abnormalities—the stethoscope—depends...

A New Study Reveals Why Measuring Common Glycol Ether Exposure During Pregnancy Is So Difficult Glycol ethers are among the quietest chemicals in modern life....

Parkinson’s disease may begin influencing the brain long before tremors, stiffness, or slowed movement become visible—and a new study points to an unexpected suspect: inflammatory...

A new qualitative study is putting a human face on one of stroke recovery’s least visible complications: social isolation. Published in BMC Geriatrics, the research...

For people receiving a bilateral lung transplant, the operation is only the beginning of a prolonged period of medical vulnerability. Immunosuppressive drugs are essential for...

A new study suggests that the human brain may do more than provide inspiration for artificial intelligence: its signals could actively improve how large language...

Multiple sclerosis has long been organized into three familiar clinical categories: relapsing–remitting, secondary progressive and primary progressive. These labels have shaped diagnosis, clinical trials and...

Black Yeasts Could Transform the Search for New Fungal Medicines Fungi have spent millions of years assembling molecular tools that can attack competitors, communicate with...

The gut and the brain are engaged in a continuous electrical and chemical dialogue that governs hunger, digestion, satiety, and the body’s response to stress....

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have reported that a single liquid biopsy may reveal within...

For patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, adding high-dose vitamin D to standard treatment did not significantly extend the time before the disease worsened, according to...

Iontronic pressure sensors may have found a powerful new route to higher sensitivity—and it does not require inventing a new material or redesigning the device....

A brief recording of ordinary speech may carry far more neurological information than clinicians can hear by ear alone. In a cross-sectional study of 214...

A new nanocomposite design could help turn everyday motion into usable electrical power, offering a promising route toward self-powered wearable devices, flexible sensors and next-generation...