Medicine

Malaria parasites do not invade red blood cells by force alone. They use a carefully coordinated molecular system that allows...

Sepsis can turn the immune system’s emergency response into a source of widespread tissue damage. When infection triggers an uncontrolled...

Biomedical engineering is entering a period of extraordinary scientific opportunity—and equally extraordinary educational pressure. At the 2025 Annual Conference of...

A nationwide survey has brought renewed attention to the hidden costs of living with a left ventricular assist device, or...

Nimodipine is a drug with a frustrating contradiction at its core. It can be highly effective in relaxing blood vessels...

A new three-dimensional view of intact ovaries is offering scientists a more complete picture of how the ovarian reserve changes...

A previously underappreciated protein in the cells lining blood vessels may hold the key to how the brain builds and...

For decades, medicine has relied on a deceptively simple assumption: that many measurements in the blood remain relatively stable within...

Weill Cornell Medicine is launching a new Department of Systems and Computational Biomedicine, an initiative designed to bring genomics, artificial...

Cisplatin has saved countless lives by attacking rapidly dividing cancer cells, but the same chemical weapon can also injure the...