Haunted by the cystic fibrosis patients he could not help, one Iowa doctor commits his life to understanding what is broken deep inside their cells.

From bland to brilliant, this once-overlooked nutrient is stepping into the spotlight—and the science says it deserves the hype.

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After false starts and incremental gains, scientists crack the problem that made breathing impossible. Will answers come fast enough to save the sick?

Nivedita Pujari, a postdoctoral researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, studies how herpes simplex virus uses ...

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.

As a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, Jamie Blum co-authored a new study on what helps the body determine which foods are safe ...

Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a technique that uses microbubbles and ultrasound to help relatively large cancer drugs enter tumor cells and cause them to self-destruct.

In Michigan Tech's biology teaching lab, undergraduate students research potential cancer cures with help from the humble worm.

Hands-on, practical education is the hallmark of engineering education at Michigan Tech. So when Samantha Cooper '27 saw the ...

Lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, are best known as the delivery system used in the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines given to billions of people worldwide. Scientists are now exploring their potential far beyond ...

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...