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Professor Mari Lundström has received the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Medal in Electrochemistry for developing technologies that could change how the world recovers metals...

A new study is drawing attention to a possible metabolic vulnerability in breast cancer stem cells: the mitochondrial DNA maintenance enzyme polymerase gamma, or POLG....

Kidney cancer may have revealed a new way to outsmart one of modern oncology’s most important drug strategies. A study by Tang, Sun, Shao and...

A deceptively simple idea could determine whether the next generation of neonatal brain-protection treatments succeeds: make experimental hypothermia less complicated, more consistent and easier to...

A molecular feedback system best known for restraining inflammation may also protect the liver from metabolic overload, according to a new study published in Cell...

Premature babies may soon have a more practical way to navigate one of neonatology’s most delicate decisions: when rising bilirubin levels require treatment. A new...

Diabetic foot ulcers are among the most stubborn complications of diabetes, combining poor circulation, persistent inflammation, microbial risk and a profound failure of tissue repair....

Extracorporeal circulation keeps blood moving through artificial tubing, pumps and oxygenators when the heart and lungs cannot perform their normal work. The technology has transformed...

A small randomized-controlled study is offering new clues about how remote ischemic conditioning may influence the molecular messages carried through the bloodstream after stroke. Published...

Acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock remains one of the most dangerous emergencies in modern cardiovascular medicine. Even when an obstructed coronary artery is...

A new polymer-assembly protocol is turning a familiar biodegradable polyester into precisely shaped two-dimensional nanomaterials. In a study published in Nature Protocols, Xia, Xiao, Yadav...

Aging Skin’s Molecular Switch: Noncircadian BMAL1–YAP Cooperation Amplifies Chronic Inflammation Aging skin is often described as a visible record of time, but its decline is...

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy has transformed the treatment of several blood cancers, yet its success often depends on how long engineered immune cells remain...

A gene therapy designed to replace a damaged or missing copy of the alpha protein kinase 3 gene has restored cardiac function in mouse and...

A simple chemical transformation could give ordinary aliphatic amines a remarkable new identity: the ability to become nitriles in a single copper-catalysed step. In a...