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For decades, medicine has tried to answer a deceptively difficult question: how likely is an individual to develop a particular disease? Traditional risk assessment usually combines factors…

 Healthcare is entering an era in which the genetic information carried by an individual can increasingly become part of routine medical decision-making. For much of modern medicine,…

For decades, immunological memory was considered one of the defining characteristics of the adaptive immune system. After encountering a pathogen, B cells and T cells can undergo…

When people hear the word “virus,” they usually think about infection, disease, fever, respiratory illness, or outbreaks. Modern microbiology, however, is revealing a much more complicated relationship…

The human microbiome has become one of the most important areas of modern biomedical research. Scientists now understand that the microorganisms living in the gastrointestinal tract are…

Human communication has traditionally depended on physical pathways. We speak by coordinating the brain, vocal muscles, tongue, lips, and respiratory system; We write or type by controlling…

For much of modern history, scientists believed that the human brain was largely fixed after childhood. The prevailing assumption was that brain development followed a relatively predictable…

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly important in healthcare, where machine learning systems can assist with medical imaging, clinical decision-making, disease prediction, drug discovery, patient monitoring, and hospital…

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important part of modern healthcare. Machine-learning systems can analyse medical images, estimate disease risk, identify patterns in electronic health records, support…

Medicine is often presented as a discipline of finding the correct diagnosis from a collection of symptoms, test results and clinical observations. In reality, many medical decisions…

Modern healthcare research increasingly depends on data. Researchers need patient records to understand disease progression, evaluate treatments, train artificial intelligence systems, identify risk factors, study rare conditions…

Aging is not simply the gradual passage of time. At the cellular level, it involves a collection of biological changes that influence how tissues repair themselves, how…

Aging is often described as a gradual decline in the body's ability to maintain and repair itself. As people grow older, the risk of cardiovascular disease, metabolic…

Healthcare has always generated information. A doctor listens to a patient's symptoms, examines the body, records observations, orders investigations, interprets test results, prescribes treatment and follows the…

For much of modern medicine, the idea of “normal” has been defined through populations. Blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, heart rate, body mass index, laboratory measurements and…

For most of medical history, understanding a person's health depended on relatively occasional encounters with healthcare professionals. A patient described symptoms, a clinician performed an examination, laboratory…

Precision medicine began with an ambitious idea: healthcare should account for the biological differences between individuals rather than assuming that the same disease behaves identically in every…

The human body possesses a remarkable capacity for repair. Skin can close wounds, bones can remodel after injury, blood cells are continuously replaced, and tissues throughout the…

Three-dimensional bioprinting has emerged as one of the technologies attempting to address this challenge. Unlike conventional 3D printing, which typically deposits plastics, metals or other non-living materials,…

Medical research has traditionally depended on a combination of laboratory cell cultures, animal models, clinical observations, and human studies. Each approach has contributed enormously to scientific progress,…