Johns Hopkins engineers built rice-sized magnetic robots that deliver antibiotics straight to infected heart tissue, potentially replacing weeks of IV drugs or risky open-heart surgery.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden layer of organization in the brain by creating the first detailed 3D map of its lipids, the fatty molecules essential for brain structure and communication. By analy...

A simple blood sample may reveal disease risk years before symptoms appear.

Scientists discovered that declining levels of a protein called Menin may help drive aging, and restoring it in older mice reversed several age-related changes in just 30 days. Even more surprisingly,...

A short course of immunotherapy before surgery may offer remarkably durable protection for some patients with stage two or three bowel cancer. In the NEOPRISM-CRC trial, 32 patients with a specific ge...

A metabolic byproduct of gut bacteria can damage the blood-brain barrier and drive the formation of Alzheimer's-related proteins. Elevated levels of the chemical correlate with worse cognitive decline...

As we age, some of our cells stop dividing but don’t die. They build up in tissues over the years, yet the standard ways of spotting them destroy the very cells being checked.

Inflammation is thought to run on autopilot, but new experiments suggest attention plays a role. When people focused on an itchy skin reaction instead of distracting themselves, the swelling was small...

Depression may not be one biological condition, but several distinct patterns of brain activity hiding under the same diagnosis. Researchers studying 263 people with depression identified five brain p...

Author Richard Socher shares 5 key insights from his new book, The Eureka Machine: Why AI Is the Key to Unlocking a New Era of Scientific Discoveries.

You carry the most complex thing in the known universe on top of your shoulders. Not a supercomputer. Not a black hole. Not a distant quasar burning a billion light-years away. It’s the three-pound, w...

You probably think of your body as something static, something that wears down over time like an old machine gathering rust. But here is the truth: underneath your skin, a breathtaking biological revo...

Researchers at Yale have identified a promising new approach to osteoarthritis that could do more than simply ease pain. The epilepsy drug lacosamide appears to block a protein involved in both pain s...

Researchers have created an AI model can recreate an image you're picturing in your head by analyzing your brain scans.

A new study reveals a "split attractor network" in fruit flies that explains how neural circuits stabilize short-term working memories.

Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. What would it mean if it could — and how much evidence is enough?

Adults with ADHD have over 4 times the risk of dementia, backed by genetic data from 187,000 older adults.

A new meta-analysis reveals that while ADHD and autism both feature atypical brain responses to rewards, the underlying neural activity goes in completely opposite directions, providing biological clu...

A new study by the Medical University of Vienna found that a specialized form of imaging could identify 91% of prostate cancer cases without a biopsy.

Chronic pain can continue long after an initial injury. When a nerve outside the brain and spinal cord (a peripheral nerve) is damaged and does not heal properly, it keeps sending constant pain signal...

Young adults experiencing depression and social anxiety might benefit from learning how to salsa dance. A new study indicates that an eight-week salsa program significantly reduced depressive symptoms...

Scientific Reports - Efficient deep learning models for early Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis

Use of AI for health is growing. The paper cites an OpenAI report estimating that more than 40 million people turn to generative AI for health queries every day.

Mpox continues to circulate in many countries, including the United States. Here's what to know about the infection and the vaccines that protect against it.

How do you fight an illness you can’t diagnose?

Breakthrough immunotherapy activates brain's own immune cells to devour toxic protein clumps, potentially transforming treatment for millions of patients

Evaluating the health records of over 2.5 million children, researchers found no evidence that receiving the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine before age two increases the risk of a childhood autism...

Though there are a number of tests to quantify health, the sit-to-stand test is actually rather holistic, making it a decent measure of longevity.

A joint study by three Spanish institutions shows how certain hippocampal neurons safeguard existing memories even as new information about events is stored.

CircaVent is a novel drug discovery platform that combines predictive algorithms, high-throughput preclinical models, and human organoids to identify and test drugs that could treat mental health cond...

Research reveals that grey hairs are a small example of a cell choosing to bow out rather than risk turning malignant

Not all researchers are convinced that the brain changes detected via MRI are robust enough to become a diagnostic tool. But the findings could help researchers better understand the mechanisms that d...

A new WHO report quantifies the toll of HPV, HIV, and many other carcinogenic pathogens.

A machine-learning speech clock reveals biological aging, brain atrophy, and dementia biomarkers from voice patterns.

That’s What Biological (Epigenetic) Aging Clocks Are Measuring

New research digs deeper into what intense aerobic activity brings us on a cellular level. Should it alter your take-home message for patients?

Researchers in the field are right to focus on biosafety, ethics and the involvement of patient groups and the public.

Making more complicated, more precise predictive calculations tells us what real experiments should deliver. AI just surpassed humans at it.

Uncovering the paradox behind the shift from fast to slow twitch muscle fibers

Why do some people with depression respond to medication while others don't? A small study points to the brain's outer layer, finding that the folding complexity and thickness of certain cortical regi...

New research links chronic insomnia to a 26% higher stroke risk, showing wearable sleep trackers can't diagnose the real danger.

Job insecurity didn't predict worse cognitive scores in older adults, but leaving work early or often did, study finds.

Study finds biological aging in uninjured brain tissue predicts aphasia severity and 6-month recovery after speech therapy and brain stimulation.

Blocking CXCR3 on immune T cells preserved 40% more memory tissue in Alzheimer’s mice without needing to cross the blood-brain barrier.

Reusable brain modules in mice let the same prefrontal neurons hold either a sound or an action plan in working memory.

Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine in the United States now say they may have found a way to disrupt one of cancer’s most frustrating survival strategies

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. bi...

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

A newly identified breakdown in communication between nerves and muscles could help explain why people lose strength as they age. Researchers were able to improve muscle strength in an animal model by...

Scientists build the first 3D "Lipid Brain Atlas," defining 539 chemical zones ("lipizones") and revealing white matter is a patchwork of distinct biochemical zones.