Medicine & Biotechnology

3+ hour, 15+ min ago   (659+ words) Scientists have uncovered a natural braking system that helps the immune system switch off inflammation and prevent harmful immune cells from building up. Boosting this pathway in people reduced inflammation-related immune changes and sped up pain relief, pointing toward potential…...

21+ min ago   (96+ words) A sweeping genetic investigation of more than 1,200 elite bread wheat lines has delivered one of the clearest pictures yet of how wheat can defend itself against spot blotch, a destructive fungal disease that thrives in the warm, humid wheat belts…...

21+ min ago   (84+ words) Chronic kidney disease is one of the world’s most burdensome chronic conditions, a slow and often silent deterioration of renal function that affects hundreds of millions of people and frequently goes undetected until the damage is advanced. Staging the disease…...

21+ min ago   (744+ words) For decades, the central obstacle to testing therapies that slow human aging has been painfully simple: aging takes decades to measure. A drug that genuinely delays the biological processes of aging would need years, often a lifetime, of follow-up before…...

42+ min ago   (597+ words) The genomes of true frogs have long puzzled geneticists. Amphibians are famous for carrying some of the largest and most repetitive genomes among vertebrates, and yet the detailed architecture of their repetitive DNA has remained poorly explored compared with mammals,…...

42+ min ago   (68+ words) Aging has become a product. Across North America and Europe, companies now sell direct-to-consumer epigenetic tests that estimate a customer’s biological age from DNA methylation patterns, often bundled with supplements and lifestyle programs marketed as capable of slowing or even…...

42+ min ago   (687+ words) A scientific publishing drama has unfolded in the pages of Polymer Bulletin, where the Editor-in-Chief has issued an Editorial Expression of Concern over a 2019 study that promised an elegant solution to one of pharmaceutics’ most persistent challenges: delivering the blood…...

42+ min ago   (631+ words) Deep inside the intervertebral disc — the resilient cushion that sits between the vertebrae of the spine — a small population of cells works quietly for decades to keep the tissue functional....

1+ hour, 4+ min ago   (55+ words) Chemists in Pakistan have shown that the secret to extracting powerful antioxidant compounds from the leaves of the lemon-scented eucalyptus tree lies in matching the polarity of the solvent to the chemistry of the target molecules. In a study published…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (76+ words) Every second of every day, billions of your cells quietly die. Far from being a catastrophe, this mass dying is part of the body’s routine housekeeping, and a specialized force of immune cells stands ready to devour the wreckage. Macrophages,…...