Medicine

Tuberculosis has been outsmarting antibiotics for decades, but one of humanity's deadliest infections may have finally met its analytical match:...

China has unveiled the extraordinary scale of one of the world's largest prospective studies of aging, with the publication of...

Few molecules have ridden a more dramatic rollercoaster through modern medicine than vitamin C, and few have inspired sharper disagreement...

Young adults in the United Kingdom who suffer strokes carry a strikingly varied mix of risk factors and underlying causes,...

A radioactive tracer engineered to illuminate the fibrous scaffolding surrounding tumor cells — rather than the tumors' appetite for sugar...

Every day in catheterization laboratories around the world, cardiologists confront the same frustrating category of blockage: the intermediate coronary stenosis,...

One of the world's most common chronic liver diseases may have a surprisingly precise weak point: a single pore in...

Down syndrome has long been recognized as one of the most predictable models of Alzheimer's disease in all of medicine,...

When a severe accident crushes a human spinal cord, the most dangerous hours unfold silently. Surgeons can realign the spine,...

In a result that blurs the line between laboratory animal and human neuroscience, researchers have shown that an artificial intelligence...