Genes, it turns out, are not always the tidy, well-separated units that textbook diagrams suggest. Across the tree of life, ...

Triple-negative breast cancer has long been one of the most stubborn targets in oncology. Lacking the estrogen receptor, ...

Fine particulate matter is one of the most insidious pollutants in modern cities, small enough to slip past the body’s ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools, parties, and entire social lives in early 2020, public health researchers wondered whether one of the world’s most stubborn adolescent behaviors might f ...

Dog bites are one of the most common injuries in the United States, yet most research has focused on a deceptively simple ...

Obesity does not simply weigh on the body; it weighs on the lungs. Excess fat around the chest wall and abdomen stiffens the respiratory system, narrows breathing reserves, and makes every breath ...

Artificial intelligence systems that analyze networks have long been built on a comforting assumption: that things which appear together tend to be alike. In a social network, friends share interests; ...

Social isolation has long been recognized as a modifiable risk factor for chronic disease, with documented links to ...

A subtle injury that lurks invisibly inside the developing elbows of infants and toddlers—and one that doctors frequently ...

Imagine an engineer who begins her morning inside a fully immersive virtual factory, rearranging production lines with a ...

European paediatric medicine is preparing for one of the most significant organisational milestones in its recent history.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as MRSA, remains one of the most formidable adversaries in modern ...