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When certain gut microbes were transferred to mice, scientists later detected the bacteria in the gut and brain, but nowhere else in the body.

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 gaping hole was left on a small island in the Pacific Ocean when the United States military released an 18-kiloton nuclear ...

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

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

Two young people are dead and 20 are receiving treatment after a meningitis outbreak at the University of Kent.

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

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.