Medicine

Onchocerciasis, commonly known as river blindness, remains one of the world’s most persistent neglected tropical diseases, despite decades of mass...

Dopamine has long been cast as the brain’s “motivation molecule,” a chemical messenger that helps shape reward, learning, movement and...

A new study published in Nature Communications reports that sepsis-associated acute kidney injury, one of the most dangerous complications of...

Parkinson’s disease may be entering a new era of prediction, in which the earliest clues to a patient’s future are...

A single atom can determine whether a heterocycle is easy to build, difficult to modify, or inaccessible through conventional synthetic...

For decades, superconductivity has been treated as a property controlled primarily by temperature, magnetic fields, chemical composition and pressure. A...

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has announced a major change in the scientific leadership of Calcified Tissue International and Musculoskeletal...

A new mRNA vaccine strategy designed to activate antitumor immunity without undermining the production of vaccine antigens has shown promising...

A new study in Nature Neuroscience reports that changes in the thickness of the cerebral cortex can appear at least...

A molecular alarm system best known for detecting misplaced DNA may be helping drive obesity from inside the intestine, according...