How the body holds ‘sleeping’ tuberculosis in check: scientists are clarifying the role of granulomas and immune defence The phrase “sleeping tuberculosis” is useful shorthand, but it hides a much more complicated biological reality. When researchers...
Read moreHow calcium channel mutations may derail early brain development in childhood epilepsy — and what this finding really explains When people think about childhood epilepsy, the first image is usually seizures. But in the most severe early-life syndrome...
Read moreA new cervix-on-a-chip could make STI research more realistic — and help show how infections meet the body For years, one of the biggest limitations in sexually transmitted infection research has been the difficulty of recreating, in the lab, the env...
Read moreBrain donation may help autism research move forward — but the evidence provided cannot confirm how well the public understands that When most people think about autism research, they tend to picture genetics, brain scans, developmental assessments,...
Read moreLow birthweight may signal higher stroke risk in young adults — but the evidence provided is still too thin to confirm it For decades, stroke was understood mainly as a condition shaped during adult life. High blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, high...
Read moreCan the immune system be trained to fight Candida better? Research points to a new antifungal strategy When doctors treat candidiasis, the basic playbook has long been familiar: identify the fungal infection, choose an antifungal drug, and try to cle...
Read moreAn Alzheimer’s risk gene may affect the brain before memory fails — but this story is still closer to hypothesis than proof For many years, Alzheimer’s disease was understood mainly as something that became real when memory loss became obvious. Today...
Read moreAir pollution may speed up brain aging — and social inequality may make that risk heavier For a long time, brain aging was discussed mainly through familiar risk factors: genetics, education, exercise, diet, sleep, blood pressure and the passage of t...
Read moreThe same protein may look like both friend and foe in colon cancer — and Stard7 shows why tumour biology is rarely simple There is an intuitive expectation in science reporting that a protein should be one thing or the other: either it helps cancer g...
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