Medicine

Childhood dementia is one of medicine’s most devastating and least understood frontiers: children lose memory, language, movement and independence as...

Scripps Research assistant professor Tiantian Liu has received a five-year New Innovators Award from the National Institute of Allergy and...

A molecular switch linking two key chromatin regulators may help explain why cells in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) age at...

Cancer’s deadliest move is often not the growth of the original tumor, but its ability to travel. Metastasis, the spread...

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...