Science

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed the treatment of lung adenocarcinoma, yet they fail in nearly half of the patients who receive them, and the reasons...

The microbes living inside a mosquito may be tiny, but their influence on disease transmission is anything but small. The bacterial communities that colonize a...

One of the largest investigations into the health effects of food additives ever conducted suggests that the real risk may lie not in any single...

People leaving jail or prison with HIV face some of the steepest odds in modern medicine. The disruption of incarceration—of housing, income, relationships, and health...

Scientists working under wartime conditions have produced the first systematic genomic map of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) in Ukraine, revealing a diverse bacterial population dominated by...

Glaucoma, a silent thief of sight that affects roughly three percent of the elderly population, has long frustrated public health planners. The disease is treatable...

Contemporary critical care medicine stands at a crossroads, and the physicians and researchers sounding the alarm say the COVID-19 pandemic revealed uncomfortable truths the world...

In a striking demonstration of how engineering can stand in for biology, researchers in the Netherlands and Switzerland have shown that a vestibulocochlear implant can...

Microwave ablation, one of the most widely used locoregional treatments for liver cancer, may do far more than simply destroy tumor tissue. A new study...

A team of Romanian researchers has developed a disposable, stamp-sized electrochemical platform capable of distinguishing between the two mirror-image forms of lysine directly in whole...

The world's ports handle billions of tonnes of cargo every year, and at the heart of the container terminal sits an unglamorous workhorse: the Rubber...

Artificial intelligence is often described as a force of nature, an autonomous wave of technological progress that societies must simply adapt to or be swept...