More than 400 years ago, two people living in modern day Chile died while infected with the smallpox virus. Viral DNA found in their mummified remains has now yielded genetic evidence of when the ...

The immunologist is one of thousands of people who are diagnosed each year with tick-induced α-gal allergy — a life-threatening allergy that is on the rise. People can develop the allergy after being ...

Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry ...

Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.

Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their ...

Four independent research teams report big advances in devices built with the underestimated quantum bits, including lower ...

Previous sleep research has focused mostly on the brain circuitry that snaps people awake in seconds or on how sleep debt ...

The criteria for consideration of translational and clinical research in Nature Medicine are originality, timeliness and impact on improving human health by addressing unmet clinical needs. Original ...

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the wasting and fatigue that often accompanies cancer. Treatments could be on ...

Scientist have developed a host of AI ‘protein language models’ that can create proteins from scratch. But Raygun can modify ...

Scientists have exploited a peculiar CRISPR enzyme so that it fights cancer by shredding the DNA in cancer cells, causing ...