Category: Health and Medicine

As the world battles rising temperatures and faces another summer of record-breaking heat waves, scientists are uncovering a hidden and…

Every cell in your body—whether it forms your beating heart, your agile neurons, or the skin you live in—runs on…

It sounds like the setup to a riddle: what do the brains of newborn babies and people with Alzheimer’s disease…

In the midst of life after breast cancer—between follow-up scans, annual checkups, and cautious hope—many survivors share a common worry:…

Sleep is as universal as life itself. Birds do it. Fish do it. Humans, cats, elephants, even fruit flies do…

In the long and grinding battle against malaria, where progress has slowed and old strategies are losing ground, scientists have…

In the quiet dimness of a clinical lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, a molecule barely…

In the world of cancer research, every discovery is a race against time. Melanoma, the most lethal form of skin…

For decades, the thalamus has been something of a backstage character in the grand drama of the human brain. Tucked…

After a sleepless night, there’s a particular kind of drowsiness that creeps into the body—a thick, almost gravitational pull toward…

You’re walking down the street on a warm summer evening when you hear it—the familiar jingle of an ice cream…

For decades, oncologists have known that cancer doesn’t play fair between the sexes. Men are statistically more likely to develop…

Deep behind the brainstem, nestled like a hidden conductor in the back of the skull, lies the cerebellum—a structure no…

In a quiet lab in Stockholm, scientists may have just rewritten the playbook for treating type 2 diabetes and obesity.…

For decades, a shadow has hung over the soda can and the sweetened iced tea: could the sugar inside be…

When the liver is hurt, it tries to heal. But sometimes, in its effort to repair itself, it ends up…

Pain is a part of life. It warns us of danger, signals when something is wrong, and often fades when…

For decades, people suffering from myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), have battled more than just an…

As global temperatures climb and climate change redefines the limits of environmental stress, a growing chorus of scientists is warning…

In the vast biological orchestra playing within every human cell, scientists have long assumed that gene expression behaves like a…

In the war between viruses and humans, there’s no battlefield more intimate than the inside of a living cell. Every…

In a brightly lit laboratory tucked inside the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan, something remarkable just happened.…