Medicine

Inflammatory cell death has long presented researchers with a difficult therapeutic paradox: the molecular machinery that eliminates infected or damaged...

Obesity risk is written in more than one language. Part of the story is encoded in DNA, where hundreds of...

For decades, neuroscience has been exceptionally good at observing individual neurons and increasingly capable of recording entire local circuits. The...

Li, G., Maeyens, L.T., Yin, J. and colleagues have identified a previously underappreciated connection between a liver protein called ABHD6...

Parkinson’s disease may begin influencing the brain long before tremors, stiffness, or slowed movement become visible—and a new study points...

Glycol ethers are among the quietest chemicals in modern life. They are used in cleaning products, paints, coatings, cosmetics, personal-care...

A new qualitative study is putting a human face on one of stroke recovery’s least visible complications: social isolation. Published...

For people receiving a bilateral lung transplant, the operation is only the beginning of a prolonged period of medical vulnerability....

Multiple sclerosis has long been organized into three familiar clinical categories: relapsing–remitting, secondary progressive and primary progressive. These labels have...

Fungi have spent millions of years assembling molecular tools that can attack competitors, communicate with their surroundings and survive extreme...