Medicine

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,...

The curve that a child's body mass index traces between the first and seventh birthdays may be one of the...

Confidence in one's ability to refuse a bet may be among the most revealing psychological signatures of problem gambling, and...

Death in Hours: Landmark Review of 86 Fatal Cases Rewrites the Forensic Rulebook for Waterhouse–Friderichsen Syndrome In forensic pathology, few...

The gym floor may be the least clinical setting in health care—and, according to a new European framework, one of...

Technology has spent decades cast as obesity's accomplice — the glowing screens that keep people in their chairs and the...