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In a Norwegian nursing home, ten residents with severe dementia spent a year gathered around a screen the size of ...

Pancreatic cancer has long been the graveyard of immunotherapy, a tumor so effectively camouflaged from the immune system that even ...

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A familiar enzyme at the center of cellular energy production has been found to perform a second, unexpectedly powerful job: ...

For decades, mature forests have been treated as if their ability to store additional carbon gradually fades toward a biological ...

Major depressive disorder is often discussed as a disorder of mood, but its effects are rarely confined to the mind. ...

Scabies and impetigo are drawing renewed attention in the Pacific, where two closely linked skin diseases can spread rapidly through ...