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Dengue prevention research has expanded dramatically across the world, yet the evidence most needed by health authorities remains difficult to find and interpret. A new...

A disease once regarded as almost exclusively adult is advancing rapidly through adolescence in the United States. New data from Colorado indicate that the incidence...

KAIST researchers have identified a possible route toward electric-vehicle batteries that charge faster without losing as much performance or lifespan. Their approach uses a three-dimensional...

Cancer cells may have a previously underappreciated vulnerability: their dependence on the controlled production of a membrane lipid that helps organize the cell’s internal architecture....

A newly reported molecular mechanism is drawing attention to one of the most tightly regulated steps in cell biology: the production of histone proteins during...

A nanoscale coating that deliberately uses tiny surface “defects” to make water droplets appear faster and leave the surface sooner has delivered a dramatic increase...

Pancreatic cancer has long challenged scientists not only because it is difficult to detect and treat, but also because a single tumour can behave like...

A new study published in Nature Communications is drawing attention to a question at the intersection of diabetes, heart rhythm disorders and stroke prevention: could...

A Parkinson’s treatment designed to smooth out the disease’s most disruptive motor fluctuations is now drawing attention to a different clinical challenge: psychotic complications that...

For decades, biologists have known that the liver is not a uniform chemical factory. Its cells perform different tasks depending on where they sit within...

A new approach to building faster, more compact optical sensors could help push silicon photonics beyond the limits of conventional semiconductor platforms. In a study...

Rare childhood central nervous system tumours have exposed one of the most stubborn weaknesses in modern oncology: science can move faster than the clinical-trial systems...

Parkinson’s disease has long been described as a disorder of dopamine-producing neurons, but a new comparative study suggests that its molecular story may be far...

A smartwatch may be doing far more than counting steps. It may be quietly recording a shifting portrait of how the body ages—minute by minute,...

A metabolic by-product best known for its role in cellular energy production may be helping obesity turn osteoarthritis into a more aggressive and destructive disease,...