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Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have taken a step in that direction, with the first fully flexible device that can convert energy from Wi-Fi signals into electricity that could power electronics.

If researchers conclusions are correct, every piece of land that we are now sitting on started off somewhere like the Andes or Tibet, with very mountainous surfaces.

In a major new study published in the journal Nature Genetics, researchers at Osaka University and their colleagues have surveyed the MHC region specifically in the Japanese population, revealing the existence of different gene variants and their connections with diseases and other traits.

After scouring the gene expression of hundreds of patients infected with dengue virus -- a mosquito-borne virus that can cause fever and joint pain, among other symptoms -- scientists have found a set of 20 genes that predicts who is at the highest risk of progressing to a severe form of the illness.

Unsupervised machine learning found “hidden factors” in medical data that could improve Alzheimer’s disease prediction, including CSF and plasma biomarkers, imaging data and genetic factors.

BMAA, associated with neurodegenerative disease, has been confirmed in eastern Australian freshwater systems and some of the cyanobacterial species responsible for its production identified.

Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) have launched the Pandemic Response Box to provide researchers with free access to 400 diverse compounds to accelerate the discovery of new treatments for life-threatening pandemic diseases.

New research on how solid particles group together in the small intestine could aid our understanding of how nutrients and drug particles are absorbed during digestion.

Tissue-resident memory T-cells appear to have a central role in the induction of acute inflammatory episodes in bowel diseases.

Traditionally, it has been difficult to extract enough DNA from insects and other small organisms to build a high quality genome for a single individual. Now, using novel technology, researchers have read the whole genetic code of one single tiny mosquito.