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A large-scale study of more than 10,000 adults with accurate sodium measurements from individuals strengthens the link between sodium intake and cardiovascular disease.

Researchers have successfully induced gene expression from a DNA extracellularly using cell-free materials alone, such as nucleic acids and proteins, for the first time.

There's no conclusive evidence that nitrate in drinking water causes adverse birth outcomes such as preterm birth or birth defects, according to recent work.

Scientists have developed a microfluidic organ-on-a-chip preclinical model of the cystic fibrosis lung airway.

Researchers have discovered a new type of cell in the heart that may help regulate heart rate and could be important in understanding certain types of congenital heart defects and other diseases that involve the heart.

The melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have already passed a point of no return, a new study has found, and scientists say it could contribute to sea level rise over coming centuries and possibly millennia.

Riluzole, a drug approved to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, could slow the loss of a particular brain cell that occurs in Niemann-Pick disease type C, a rare genetic disorder affecting children and adolescents, suggests a study in mice.

It is possible for the body’s T cells to detect and destroy cancer cells. However, in most cancer patients, T cells become disarmed once they enter the environment surrounding a tumor. Researchers have now uncovered a possible way to indirectly activate those T cells.

Researchers have gained some new insights that help to better understand the connection between an unhealthy diet and obesity, diabetes and gastrointestinal cancer.

A plant-based antiviral treatment for COVID-19 has been shown to be effective at treating all variants of SARS-CoV-2, even the highly infectious Delta variant.