How do researchers know whether someone follows a healthy diet? Often, they ask people to remember what they ate over the past few days or weeks. But memory is not always reliable, and food questionnaires cannot capture everything happening inside the body. A new study suggests that blood may offer …
Inflammation is part of the brain’s defence system. But when that response stays switched on, it can become damaging. This is one reason scientists are increasingly interested in neuroinflammation in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Now, researchers at the University of Birmingham have identified a receptor that appears to help …
Some of the most useful medicines ever discovered began with something surprisingly small: a molecule made by a microorganism. The problem is that nature contains an enormous number of microbes that scientists cannot easily grow in the laboratory. Their DNA can still be recovered from soil, water and other environmental …
The Y chromosome has often been treated as the relatively simple member of the human chromosome pair: important for sex determination, but containing far fewer genes than the X chromosome. Cancer biology is revealing a more complicated story. A new study has found that cancer cells can selectively delete sections …
Most cells in the human body have a built-in answer to severe damage: die. Through a controlled process called apoptosis, damaged or unnecessary cells can be removed without causing widespread inflammation. But some cells take a different path. They stop dividing, yet remain alive and metabolically active. This state is …
What if a diagnostic test could detect the molecular fingerprints of disease before the body produced noticeable symptoms? That possibility is driving research into quantum sensors devices that exploit quantum properties of matter to measure extremely weak biological signals. Unlike conventional sensors, quantum sensors can detect tiny changes in magnetic …
A drug originally inspired by HIV treatment has produced an unexpected result: it helped damaged nerves recover in mice with an experimental form of multiple sclerosis. The compound, called kamuvudine-9 (K-9), was developed from a class of antiviral drugs known as nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, or NRTIs. But researchers removed …
What if, instead of searching for a naturally occurring virus that happens to kill a dangerous bacterium, scientists could systematically redesign these viruses to make them more useful? That possibility has moved a step closer with a new genetic tool developed by researchers at the University of Otago in New …
A study conducted by researchers at the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School and biotechnology company Oxford BioDynamics investigated the biological mechanisms connecting five clinically distinct disorders: myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long COVID, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis (MS). Traditionally, these conditions have been …
When we hear the word mutation, we often think of cancer, inherited disorders or harmful genetic changes. But mutations are not inherently good or bad. A genetic mutation is simply a change in DNA. Its biological effect depends on where it occurs, what it changes, and the environment in which …
When a new memory is formed, some connections between brain cells become stronger. A protein called CaMKIIα is one of the key molecules involved in this process, and scientists have now watched individual CaMKIIα complexes organize themselves into chain-like structures. The discovery offers a closer look at what happens inside …
What if you could destroy a tumour without cutting into the body, burning it or using ionising radiation? A technology called histotripsy is making that possibility real for certain liver tumours. The treatment uses precisely focused ultrasound pulses to mechanically destroy targeted tissue. In the United States, the FDA has …
For millions of women around the world, ovarian cancer remains one of the most challenging diagnoses to hear. Known as a stealthy illness, it often hides inside the abdomen until it has reached advanced stages. Even when doctors perform surgery to remove a tumor and prescribe standard chemotherapy, stubborn cancer …
Scientists have now taken a remarkable step toward answering that question. Researchers at Stanford University transplanted human brain organoids miniature, lab-grown pieces of human cortical tissue into genetically engineered mice whose cerebral cortex was largely absent. Instead of simply surviving, the human tissue grew, matured and formed extensive connections with …
What if a cancer vaccine could be designed specifically for your tumour? That is the idea behind a personalised mRNA vaccine being developed for melanoma. Instead of giving every patient the same vaccine, scientists analyse the mutations in a person’s tumour and use that information to create a vaccine containing …
Tomato plants have a bodyguard team of helpful soil bacteria. Scientists have just found out how one of the world’s worst fungi gets rid of them, and it does not do the job alone. Every tomato plant is standing in a crowd. The soil around its roots holds billions of …
Imagine intercepting a malignant tumor months or even years before a single symptom manifests. A massive NHS clinical trial in the UK is currently evaluating a single-draw Multi-Cancer Early Detection (MCED) test that aims to shift cancer care from reactive treatment to preemptive interception. The Molecular Mechanism: Deciphering Epigenetic Fingerprints …
Pancreatic cancer has long been considered one of the hardest cancers to treat. One reason is its remarkable ability to grow aggressively while remaining difficult to target with conventional therapies. But a major shift in cancer treatment has arrived: scientists are now targeting one of the molecular systems that directly …
For decades, scientists knew what was helping many pancreatic cancers grow. The problem was that they couldn’t stop it. Now, that may be changing. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a new once-daily pill for adults with previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer. The drug targets a …
Have you ever suddenly become frightened and felt a strange sensation in your stomach as if your body were dropping, sinking, or missing a step? It can happen on a roller coaster, during a sudden scare, before an important event, or even when you receive unexpected bad news. The sensation …
Aging is associated with a higher prevalence of autoantibodies and autoimmune conditions. As people age, immune tolerance may become less effective because of changes in T-cell and B-cell function, thymic involution, and reduced regulatory T-cell activity. These changes can contribute to the production of autoantibodies such as antinuclear antibodies (ANA), …
A fever, cough, body ache and exhaustion during the monsoon can easily be dismissed as “just another viral infection.” But this year, influenza is getting more attention for a reason. Delhi has reported a sharp rise in H1N1 cases, with numbers several times higher than the same period last year, …
A team of researchers led by scientists at Brown University has identified new genetic mutations in malaria parasites that are linked to decreased susceptibility to standard antimalarial treatments. Published in Nature Medicine, the federally funded study analyzed whole-genome sequences of malaria parasites taken from the blood of hundreds of infected …
A severe COVID-19 infection may do more than damage the lungs and trigger inflammation. It may also disturb the body’s control over viruses that have remained hidden inside cells for years. A study involving more than 1,000 people hospitalised with COVID-19 found that nearly half showed signs of reactivation of …
A drug-resistant fungus is spreading across the United States, with Candida auris reported in 23 states in 2026. CDC data reported more than 3,100 clinical cases by mid-July, highlighting the growing public health concern around a fungus that can spread in healthcare settings and cause severe, sometimes life-threatening infections. But …
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