Measles cases in the world’s children have been climbing since 2020, reversing a decades-long decline, according to a global ...

Image processing is manipulation of an image that has been digitised and uploaded into a computer. Software programs modify the image to make it more useful, and can for example be used to enable ...

Gallstone disease is common, but its genetic basis remains incompletely understood. Here, the authors conduct a trans‑ancestry GWAS identifying 116 risk loci, linking gallstone susceptibility to lipid ...

A retrospective meta-analysis is a post hoc methodology with substantial probability of bias and is appropriately viewed as exploratory. Well-powered confirmatory studies, prospective meta-analysis ...

Evaluating the genetic variation found in parts of DNA inherited from only one parent (or uniparental diversity), an ...

Optics and photonics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and harnessing them in practical applications. Optics and photonics covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum from high-energy ...

Innate immune cells are white blood cells that mediate innate immunity and include basophils, dendritic cells, eosinophils, Langerhans cells, mast cells, monocytes and macrophages, neutrophils and NK ...

Genomics is the study of the full genetic complement of an organism (the genome). It employs recombinant DNA, DNA sequencing methods, and bioinformatics to sequence, assemble, and analyse the ...

Severe jaw disproportions can disrupt speech, yet objective data showing that corrective jaw surgery improves speech postoperatively are limited. Here, the authors show that jaw surgery leads to ...