Medicine

A child’s broken bone can heal in an unexpected way. Instead of restoring the delicate architecture of the growth plate,...

A healing colon does not simply switch genes on and off. Its cells appear to follow a complex daily timetable,...

Food allergy researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have reported early evidence that changing the gut microbiome may increase tolerance to...

Hydrogels are among the most promising materials in modern biomedicine. They are soft, water-rich networks that can resemble the physical...

Barrow Neurological Institute has received a $5 million grant from the Arizona Department of Health Services to launch a Phase...

Insilico Medicine has nominated ISM9077, an artificial intelligence-designed inhibitor of an undisclosed “Target Y,” as a preclinical candidate for dry...

Cancer researchers have designed a synthetic peptide that turns tumour cells into highly visible targets for the immune system by...

A new review in Genes & Diseases describes how DNA-based technologies are moving medicine toward a future in which disease...

Cancer research is entering a new phase in which tumors are no longer viewed as isolated collections of malignant cells....

For decades, physicists have been trying to understand what happens when a material that should conduct electricity instead behaves like...