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A six-year study across the Tanzanian mountain’s slopes hints at how land-use practices will interact with a changing climate to influence ecosystems around the world.

The Purdue University nutrition researcher delves into the details of how fat tissue affects tumors.

Comparing the cells of cancer patients who did and did not respond to the immunotherapy could reveal biomarkers to predict who should receive it in the first place.

The expression of a slew of genes in psychiatric patients closely tracks pain intensity and predicts future emergency room visits, according to a study.

The field is young, but predicting antigens produced by patients’ malignant cells could yield successful treatments for individuals with a range of cancer types.

Through their effects on metabolism and immunity, bacteria in the gut affect whether medications will be effective for a given patient.

From personalizing clinical practice to aiding biomedical research, individualized clinical trials have been heralded as a solution to several problems plaguing modern medicine. But they’ve yet to be widely adopted.  

Calories aren’t enough to correct malnourishment, but eating foods that spur specific microbes to grow in the gut can.

Animal studies and a few small clinical trials show it’s possible to get commensal microbes to protect against bone loss, rather than contribute to it.

The university and the publisher have been trying to forge a new licensing agreement for the last year.

Five independent groups got different results in a drug-response experiment, despite sharing protocols, reagents, and cell lines. The researchers identify technical variables that could be to blame.

The answer has broad implications for paleontology research—and maybe for museum collections, too.