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Researchers net tilapia, which they’ll transport to the paddies of a rice farm in the Senegal River Valley. Ricci Shyrock for NPRhide caption

A grassroots team of researchers just cracked open a new frontier in drug development – one that Big Pharma hasn’t bothered with. Working nights and weekends with cobbled-together funding, they’ve demonstrated how quantum computing paired with AI can generate novel peptides to treat rare diseases and help underserved populations. The breakthrough, detailed by Wired, shows…

A couple who fell in love while undergoing dialysis at the same clinic have called on the government to do more to protect kidney patients from cardiovascular disease

Over the past few decades, doctors around the world have noticed a worrying trend: male fertility is declining. More couples are struggling to conceive, and research suggests that in nearly half of infertility cases, male-related factors play a role

Every pregnancy-related death in Missouri linked to mental health conditions, including substance use disorders, could have been prevented, according to a new five-year report from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services

COMBINED tau biomarkers track early cognitive decline and forecast structural neurodegeneration in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Clinicians evaluating asymptomatic individuals with confirmed amyloid-beta deposition frequently face significant prognostic challenges due to variable disease trajectories. While plasma biomarkers offer high diagnostic sensitivity, they lack spatial precision regarding fibrillar protein localization in specific neural tissues. To address these…

The release of the Oyo schoolchildren after more than 50 days in captivity has once again brought to the fore the often-overlooked physical and psychological toll of kidnapping. While the return of victims is widely celebrated, medical experts warn that 

Curtis Lancaster – South of England Sun, July 12, 2026 at 6:10 AM UTC Lisa Halls, from Southampton said she was 27-stone at her heaviest

“With endometriosis, most people end up minimising their pain, gaslighting themselves so they don’t reach out for help,” Abbie Filer explains

A dangerous mosquito-borne virus that can cause deadly brain swelling is surging across Orange County — and officials are now sending trucks into one hard-hit city to fight back