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Retinoblastoma, the most common malignant eye tumour in children, has become a new focus of research into the regulatory DNA elements that can make cancer...

A molecular switch that controls both bone destruction and bone formation may offer a new way to treat postmenopausal osteoporosis, according to a study published...

The microbiome has become one of the most influential frontiers in modern medicine, but the field still faces a fundamental problem: studies that appear to...

Microglia, the brain’s resident immune cells, may hold one of the most important clues for understanding why an injury that occurs around birth can produce...

Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract, collectively known as CAKUT, are among the most common structural abnormalities identified in newborns. They range from...

Mediterranean olive farming is entering a climate era unlike any in its long agricultural history. Rising temperatures, longer droughts, intense rainfall, soil degradation and declining...

Bridges rarely fail without warning. Long before a serious structural problem becomes visible to the public, traffic, weather, moisture, and repeated cycles of loading can...

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) remains one of the most persistent complications affecting infants born prematurely, but clinicians still lack a reliable way to identify which babies...

In the developing mouse brain, inhibitory neurons do not emerge as a single, uniform population. Instead, they diversify through multiple developmental routes that gradually produce...

Wearable electronics are moving beyond passive health tracking. The next generation of devices is expected to sense physiological changes, interpret them, remember important signals, and...

China’s maize harvest is entering a new era of uncertainty, and a new study suggests that the country’s biggest opportunity may lie not in expanding...

Cystic fibrosis is often described as a bacterial disease, but the airways of people living with the condition are home to far more than a...

Electric-vehicle drivers may soon have a new reason to stop fearing long charging times. Researchers in South Korea have developed a redesigned lithium-ion battery anode...

A new neonatal model of hypoxic-ischemic injury is challenging a central assumption in the study of newborn brain damage: that lasting cognitive problems must be...

An international team of scientists has described seven new species of diamond frogs from Madagascar, revealing that the island’s secretive genus Rhombophryne contains far more...