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A peek inside some leading research labs shows how scientists-turned-detectives are painstakingly decoding what causes autoimmune diseases and how to stop the immune system from attacking you instead of protecting you.

Between January and mid-October 2025, calls to local 211 helplines from people seeking food pantries in their community held steady at nearly 1,000 calls per day.

Lupus, which is difficult to treat and on the rise, is part of the group of autoimmune diseases that affect millions of people worldwide.

Lupus is one of a rogues’ gallery of autoimmune diseases that affect as many as 50 million Americans

The number of people receiving treatment for cancer has risen dramatically in the last decade in many African countries. For example, 10 years ago in Ethiopia and Kenya, cancer care was available to only a few thousand patients per year in a few hospitals. Today, over 75,000 people receive cancer…

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi – the “father of metal-organic frameworks,” or MOFs – along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation of a new class of crystalline materials. It recognized a revolution quietly reshaping how scientists capture, store and…

Just blatantly going after anyone who speaks up.

Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration’s hostility toward vaccines

Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work.

Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP. Since taking office in January, the US president has cut billions of dollars in funding, attacked universities' academic freedoms and overseen…

The U.S. government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader economy