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Mounting evidence suggests that intermittent fasting causes significant changes to various organs and tissue types.

A look at how gluten affects patients with celiac disease

Both macroplastic items, such as bags, bottles, and other packaging, and products containing micro- and nanoplastic particles—from cosmetics to paints—contaminate the Earth’s ecosystems.

Lab studies suggest that plastic pollutants in the environment could have detrimental effects on animals’ physiology.

See how scientists designed food with amino acid compositions based on protein-coding regions in the genomes of mice and fruit flies.

See researchers' recipe for synthetic mesenchymal stem cells, which showed cardiac regenerative potential in mice.

Immune cells called macrophages shuttle cellular messages in the skin.

Custom-designed kinases have built-in switches that act as gatekeepers for the enzymes' active sites.

Simultaneous stroking of one's real hand and a fake limb can lead that person to embody the fake on as their own.

See coauthors' connections to eight researchers with problematic papers.

Guppies transplanted between different communities in Trinidadian streams evolved in response to changes in predation threat in just a few generations.

The structure and function of the cell's protein-degrading machine