Research on disease, treatment, and what keeps people well. Coverage runs from lab findings and clinical trials to public health, nutrition, and the health care system.
A new historical review argues that aging is driven less by accumulated molecular damage than by growth and developmental programs that keep running past their purpose, a framework called hyperfunction that is now being tested with rejuvenation technologies.
Engineered spinal interneurons grown from human stem cells survived inside injured rats, took input from the brainstem and passed signals on to the diaphragm, though every animal needed daily immunosuppression and the gain showed only under respiratory stress.
Neanderthals carried a growth hormone receptor that signals more strongly in cultured cells than the common modern version. Adults who inherited it average slightly more muscle mass, a marginally shorter jaw ramus and shorter tooth roots.
Neuroplasticity lets the brain rewire at any age, but not without limits. See what the evidence on training, injury, and aging actually shows.
Removing a glioblastoma from a mouse brain leaves the blood-brain barrier leaky at the surgical rim for two brief spells. A single dose of an approved liposomal chemotherapy, timed into one of them, stopped the tumor coming back.
Blood tests from a four-week diet trial in Germany show measurable shifts in DNA methylation, the chemical tags that switch genes on and off, with three different aging clocks disagreeing about which direction those shifts point.
Tracking nearly 3000 American boys from birth, researchers found circumcised children were no more likely to be diagnosed with autism, and a raw gap that first hinted otherwise dissolved once family and regional differences were taken into account.
A compartmental model built at Lehigh University turns the vagus nerve’s control of digestion into equations that run on a laptop, reproducing how a simulated stomach empties and stalls under stress before any therapy is tested in patients.
An AI model trained on more than 10,000 overnight recordings sorted sleep-study patients into five risk tiers, spotting a doubled five-year mortality gap that the standard apnea severity score missed entirely, in both men and women.
A survey of 426 Nigerian science students found that those handling reagents most often, and eating the fewest fruits and vegetables, reported the most fatigue, headaches and bruising, though no blood test confirmed why.
A review of more than 350 studies finds that low-protein diets extend lifespan in flies and rodents and improve metabolic health in people, though the authors say the right amount likely depends on how active you are.
Vipers make serum proteins that neutralize their own venom. Combinations of them fully blocked the lethal action of three viper venoms in mice, partly blocked two more, and did nothing at all against the African puff adder.