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A new immunotherapy drug has demonstrated early promise in a recent prostate cancer clinical trial. The drug, called VIR-5500, is a "masked T-cell engager". This type of immunotherapy ignites our own ...

A coffee hit might be more commonly associated with increased alertness, but a new study shows that it could also help lower the risks of developing anxiety and depression – and there's actually a ...

A seismic shift in the selection pressures acting on humans may have brought us to a major turning point in our evolutionary journey.

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Paraxanthine, a compound the body naturally produces when it breaks down caffeine, is starting to appear in energy drinks and even some coffee products as a potential caffeine alternative.

For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people deathly ill.

After 88 years, the world's longest study on happiness is still going strong. In 1938, scientists at Harvard University put ...

UK health authorities are probing 27 cases linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak believed to have spread at a nightclub in ...

The cannabis plant contains two powerful compounds that may reverse fatty liver disease in mice without causing any ...

Far away, alone in a crater on a planet inhabited only by robots, NASA's Perseverance rover explores a dry landscape that was ...

It's been known for some time that psychological stress can make eczema (atopic dermatitis) worse, but it hasn't been clear ...