Rare diseases are defined individually by their scarcity, but collectively they represent one of the largest burdens of unmet medical need in modern medicine. An estimated 300 million people worldwide ...

Large language models are being welcomed into hospitals at a pace that has outstripped nearly every safety discipline in modern medicine. They draft discharge summaries, suggest differential ...

Every time an animal learns to navigate a familiar environment, its brain quietly rewires itself at the molecular level. A new study published in the journal Neuroinformatics offers one of the most ...

Osteoporosis has long been treated as a disease of bone tissue alone, a slow thinning of the skeleton driven by aging, estrogen loss, and an imbalance between the cells that build bone and the cells ...

One of the largest studies ever conducted on the early-life home environment has found that the physical and biological characteristics of a family’s home may shape a baby’s vulnerability to res ...

Researchers at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR) in Mexico have unveiled TOTEM, a fully ...

Aboard a spacecraft, the air astronauts breathe is a closed loop, recycled endlessly through ducts, filters, and scrubbers ...

Deep inside the developing mammalian cortex, a thin band of early-born neurons called the subplate has long puzzled ...

Gastric cancer remains one of the world’s deadliest malignancies, ranking fifth among the most commonly diagnosed cancers and ...

A text message program originally designed to treat anxiety appears to deliver an unexpected bonus: relief from depression.

How long ago did this person die? It sounds like a simple question, but for forensic anthropologists confronted with a set of ...

The establishment of new populations from small groups of founders is one of the most common scenarios in modern conservation ...