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With the global rise of a “Parkinson’s Pandemic,” researchers have high hopes that prescribing exercise can slow the progression of the neurological disease.

Researchers tune into the brain, seeking clues to solve the mysteries of neuronal health and aging.

Under stress, adults of one jellyfish species revert to the post-larval stage to avoid aging and death. 

Researchers released the first nearly complete sequence of the widely used RPE-1 human cell line.

Cichlids can be protective parents or infanticidal cannibals—studying these extremes could provide new insights into their evolution.

What started with a fascination for fungi in Brazil has led this postdoc to develop new tools and approaches for decoding microbial protein machinery.

The large language model scored a majority of discredited or retracted articles highly, highlighting that information obtained from AI tools must be verified.

Researchers analyzed human breast milk samples and uncovered gene expression patterns tied to high and low breast milk supply.

Jesús (Tito) González, Paul Negulescu, and Michael Welsh received the 2025 Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award for the development of a life-saving cystic fibrosis treatment.

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life.

Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of disordered proteins in cell biology.

Scientists linked a maternal gut microbe that degrades key pregnancy hormones to early labor, potentially serving as a predictive risk biomarker.