Doctors were shocked to find that the new kidney they were going to give a 61-year-old man was full of parasitic worms. This nearly cost him his life. Ten weeks after the surgery, the patient was taken back to Massachusetts General Hospital (MassGen) in bad shape, throwing up, having a fever, and having trouble breathing. ...
In a vivid example of nature adapting to human pressure, invasive smallmouth bass in New York’s Adirondack Mountains have evolved traits that help them resist long-standing removal campaigns. According to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these fish are now growing faster and reproducing earlier, an evolutionary shift that is ...
The story of the “Pharaoh’s Curse” haunted archaeologists for hundreds of years. It started with the excavation of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and continued with the mysterious deaths of teams in Poland’s Casimir IV crypt in the 1970s. Scientists have now found a shocking twist: the fungus that was thought to be responsible for ...
People thought for a long time that cancer was a disease that only older people got, mostly in their later years. But something troubling is happening: more adults under 50 are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before. Researchers are scrambling for answers as the number of early-onset cases of breast, colorectal, kidney, and uterine ...
In a landmark moment for food innovation, Wildtype’s cultivated salmon has become the first lab-grown seafood approved for sale in the United States. Now available at a Portland, Oregon restaurant, this sushi-grade salmon is grown from fish cells in bioreactors—offering a sustainable alternative to traditional aquaculture. But while the product has cleared scientific and regulatory ...
For more than 100 years, acetaminophen, which is better known as Tylenol, has been a common way to relieve pain. Scientists have never fully understood how it works, even though it is used by a lot of people. A new study that changes everything says we might have been wrong about how it works all ...
A South Korean research team has accomplished what was once thought of as science fiction: reprogramming malignant cancer cells into healthy, functional tissue without chemotherapy or radiation in a ground-breaking leap for oncology Under the direction of Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), this ground-breaking method may redefine ...
A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota has found that viruses transmitted between different bee species do not result in the formation of new virus variants. This discovery, published in Communications Biology, provides a rare bit of good news for bee pollinators, which have been in decline for over 25 years. ...
Scientists have pursued the illusive dream of slowing aging not only to extend life but also to guarantee good health during those extra years. Now, from an improbable location your medicine cabinet an unannounced competitor has surfaced. Prescribed widely as a blood pressure medication, rilmenidine has been shown in animals to extend lifespan and enhance ...
An HIV diagnosis was thought of as a death sentence for decades. Millions of people living with the virus lead long, healthy lives today thanks to revolutionary medical advances. One still unresolved issue is whether HIV/AIDS can ever be totally cured. The response is more hopeful and complicated than you would think. Although ART can ...
