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Cancer cells may have a previously underappreciated vulnerability: their dependence on the controlled production of a membrane lipid that helps ...

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

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

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

A new study published in Nature Communications is drawing attention to a question at the intersection of diabetes, heart rhythm ...

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

A Parkinson’s treatment designed to smooth out the disease’s most disruptive motor fluctuations is now drawing attention to a different ...

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