Medicine

A 55-year-old man did everything his doctors asked of him. His celiac disease, diagnosed nearly two decades earlier, was considered...

For centuries, electroacupuncture has sat uneasily between traditional practice and hard neuroscience: clinically promising, mechanistically opaque. A new study now...

Every year, roughly 1.25 million people worldwide have a pacemaker or an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) fitted in their chest...

Soft Robotic Glove That Breathes Motion Into Paralyzed Hands Passes Its First Clinical Test in Early Stroke A soft robotic...

The Brain's Own Cannabis-Like Molecules Act as a Hidden Gain Control for Motivation, Study Finds Deep inside the mammalian brain,...

For years, the promise of precisely writing new DNA into the genome has been constrained by an awkward trade-off: the...

One of the most intensively studied genes in modern medicine has just been caught doing something unexpected in one of...

Meningiomas, the most common primary brain tumors in adults, have long presented clinicians with a deceptively simple problem: some grow...

For nearly a century, influenza vaccine design has been a love letter to a single molecule. Hemagglutinin, the lollipop-shaped surface...

For the hundreds of thousands of amateur runners who spend months pounding city pavements in pursuit of a personal best,...