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A new cohort study is drawing attention to one of the most closely watched questions in child health: why some children born very preterm later...

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research have developed miniature ceramic structures that can rapidly roll and...

Ultra-processed foods now provide nearly 60% of the calories consumed by adults in the United States and about 70% of the energy intake of American...

Liquid battery electrolytes have long been described as if they were simple recipes: a salt dissolved in a solvent, perhaps combined with an additive and...

Scientists have used artificial intelligence, genetic profiling and gut microbiome analysis to investigate how Crohn’s disease progresses from chronic inflammation to intestinal fibrosis, a form...

Every tomato begins as a flower, but producing a ripe fruit requires a precisely timed biological sequence. The male and female reproductive organs must develop...

Despite extraordinary advances in biomedical science, neuropsychiatric disorders continue to impose one of the largest health burdens on societies worldwide. More than 1 billion people...

For premature and medically fragile newborns, removing a breathing tube is not a simple matter of switching off a machine. It is a high-stakes physiological...

KRAS has long been one of cancer biology’s most stubborn molecular targets. The protein acts as a switch that helps cells interpret growth signals, cycling...

Cell surface display has become one of biotechnology’s most useful strategies for controlling what cells present to their surroundings. By placing a protein, peptide or...

A new study has identified a fast, previously underappreciated mechanism that may allow the brain to keep information alive across physically separated regions. Published in...

A newly reported molecular mechanism may help explain why hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common primary liver cancer, can become so difficult to control once it...

A commonly prescribed class of blood-thinning medicines may do more than prevent strokes in people living with both atrial fibrillation and Alzheimer’s disease. A nationwide...

A Complete 3D Map of the Aging Ovary Reveals That Egg Activation Is Carefully Regulated The mammalian ovary may be far more actively managed than...

A new single-cell technology is giving researchers an unusually complete view of how individual cells establish and change their identities. Called OneCell CUT&Tag, the method...