Usha Lee McFarling is a former STAT reporter. New research calls into question the high-profile conclusion of the first major study to show that the race of physicians influences health outcomes. In ...

A cell can act in astonishingly complex ways. It must decide for itself whether to grow and multiply, rest, specialize, age or die. This applies just as much to mammalian cells as it does to seemingly ...

A new study led by Rice University's Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede has revealed that protein clumps, or plaques that clog the ...

One day at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts this past summer, fifth-year combined-degree student Clara Davis took a box ...

Dr. Frank Frizelle has operated on countless patients in his career as a colorectal surgeon. But there’s one case that stayed with him. In 2014, he was treating a woman in her late 20s suffering from ...

Growth cannot be measured only in numbers or output. It is a story of renewal - of how societies reorganise, how ideas travel ...

There's a significant imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe, but a strange particle called "the Majoron" could finally explain it, an audacious new study suggests. When you purchase ...

But something a bit more complicated and less discussed might actually be what’s at hand. We’re talking about a sucrase deficiency. Basically, it affects the digestion of sugar and carbs in the body.