We usually think of ice as just frozen water. It is simple, solid, and cold. But water is a master of disguise. With just two atoms, hydrogen and oxygen, it can freeze into more than 20 different ...

A form of diabetes that quietly affected some of the world’s poorest communities for generations has finally been given its own name and place in the medical playbook. Type 5 diabetes, once buried ...

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Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new scientific paper has a name for a different type of diabetes: type 5 diabetes. This form was ...

The diabetes playbook just got a major update. The International Diabetes Federation officially recognized a fifth form of the disease this year, a landmark step that comes more than 70 years after it ...

In the early 1950s, British physician Philip Hugh-Jones was flummoxed by 13 patients who showed up at the diabetes clinic he ran near Kingston, Jamaica. At the time, researchers broadly recognized two ...