Pain isn’t just a physical sensation—it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a fleeting injury into long-term suffering.

Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate of all major cancers, and its incidence is climbing. Because it is typically asymptomatic at early stages, pancreatic cancer is especially difficult to catch and treat in time. This allows the cancer to spread or metastasize throughout the body, the ultimate cause of death for nearly all patients.

Nearly everything you know about plants was first discovered in a plant you’ve likely never heard of. Arabidopsis thaliana, also known as thale cress, is a small, flowering weed that has been used by researchers for the last half-century to study plant growth and behavior. Despite this, many aspects of the Arabidopsis life cycle still remain a mystery.

The obesity rate has more than doubled in the last 30 years, affecting more than one billion people worldwide. Current treatment options include lifestyle interventions, bariatric surgery, and GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy, but many patients struggle to access or complete these treatments or to maintain their weight loss afterward.

Lost in the 99 percent of our DNA that was previously disregarded as “noncoding,” microproteins have been hiding in these vast, dark stretches of unexplored genetic code. But despite being small and elusive, their impact may turn out to be just as big as that of larger proteins.

Breastfeeding has known benefits for both mother and child, reducing maternal risk of breast and ovarian cancers, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure while simultaneously supporting the baby’s nutrition and immune system. But because pregnancy and lactation have been historically understudied, we still don’t understand the science behind many of these benefits.