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Researchers tracking a genetic mutation that causes an early-onset form of the disease hope to uncover new drug targets.

Commonly prescribed drugs called fluoroquinolones cause rare, disabling side effects. Researchers are struggling to work out why.

After 20 years of hope, promise and controversy, human embryonic stem cells are reshaping biological concepts and starting to move into the clinic.

Like oil in water, the contents of cells can segregate into droplets. It’s called phase separation, and biologists are seeing it everywhere.

Blockchain could let people offer health records for research — without losing control over them

Scientists are already debating whether the findings could overturn 20 years of conventional thought.

Physicists make misaligned sheets of the carbon material conduct electricity without resistance.

Neuroscientists are getting excited about non-invasive procedures to tune the brain’s natural oscillations.

Publishers would need to join forces to apply image-checking software across the literature.