Science

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...

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 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...

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,...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is often reduced to a story about distractibility and excess energy. In reality, the condition can disrupt a far broader set...

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,...

Cytokines are among the immune system’s most powerful molecular messengers. These small proteins coordinate inflammation, guide the development of immune cells and help the body...

A new study in npj Viruses is examining how orthoflaviviruses manipulate one of the most dynamic systems inside infected cells: the mitochondria. The article, “Mitochondrial...

A new study is drawing attention to a potentially important biological link between brain development, cholesterol-derived signaling molecules and autism-related neurobiology. Published in Translational Psychiatry,...