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Sugar has been called “evil,” “toxic,” and “poison.” But the body needs sugars, too. Sugar…

White adipose tissue (WAT), or white fat, plays a fundamental role in the development of…

Bacteria are a nanotechnological marvel. Consider the bacterium Escherichia coli as an example. Barely a millionth the…

MIT’s Hockfield Court is bordered on the west by the ultra-modern Stata Center, with its…

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer deaths, accounting for about a third…

Could engineering marine bacteria lower atmospheric carbon dioxide? In Wyss postdoc Max Schubert’s view, solving climate…

Harvard Medical School researchers have taken an important step toward developing a gene therapy to…

Lakshya Bajaj had just moved from Houston to become a postdoctoral researcher in the lab…

It’s been a mystery hiding in plain sight. Researchers working with tiny worms called Caenorhabditis elegans—a…

How could studying gastrointestinal cells help the fight against COVID-19, which is a respiratory disease?…