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All current local anesthetics block sensory signals — pain — but they also interrupt motor…

Viruses aren’t thought of as living beings. Rather, they are collections of genetic instructions that…

Namita Sarraf loves to find herself at intersections, whether it’s pursuing a Ph.D. at the…

Annotating regions of interest in medical images, a process known as segmentation, is often one…

Scientists are pushing back against the Trump administration’s massive cuts to federal research funding in…

At MIT, a few scribbles on a whiteboard can turn into a potentially transformational cancer…

UMass Chan Medical School has licensed worldwide rights to a long-lasting human monoclonal antibody, designated…

Many scientific discoveries are serendipitous—the result of chance. Seeing evolution in action in a cheese…

Every feeling in our body, from a pang of hunger to a wave of nausea…

A new study led by investigators at the Kwon Lab and collaborators shows how energy…