Biomedicine & Disease

Behavioral conditions such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) crop up in about one in three autistic people within 15 ...

Figuring out the pieces to the Alzheimer’s puzzle ...

Mary-Claire King's stellar career has covered human and chimp evolution, finding BRCA1 and reuniting families that have been torn apart ...

The "internal wiring" of breast cancer can predict which women are more likely to survive or relapse, say researchers. The ...

[C]ancer might arise more easily than previously thought. By doing experiments on both yeast cells and on human cells in ...

In Masiphumelele, an informal settlement of tin shacks, squat brick buildings, and narrow lanes south of Cape Town, 23,000 people ...

On February 18, 2019, The Asahi Shimbun reported, “Ministry [of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan] OKs 1st iPS [induced pluripotent ...

Long-acting medicines have proved as effective as daily pills in preventing HIV from replicating, according to results from twin trials ...

It’s not clear why, but the Greater Mekong Subregion—Cambodia, southern China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam—is a major source of ...

Experiments show pig-human chimeras might be able to farm human organs for transplantation and disease research. But would it be ...

A massive new study from Denmark found no association between being vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella and developing autism. In science ...

The flu season is at its height in the Northern Hemisphere, but—as many are discovering—seasonal flu vaccines don’t always provide ...

Roche’s cancer immunotherapy Tecentriq (atezolizumab), a PD-L1 inhibitor, scored its fifth Food and Drug Administration approval on [March 8], for advanced triple-negative ...

Adding to its roster of healthcare offerings, the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe announced [March 11] that it can provide ...

Having a strange and little-known condition is increasingly becoming a regular part of life, bonding patients together with a common ...

One of the earliest links between influenza and neural dysfunction was a correlation between the 1918 Spanish flu, caused by ...

There’s a test for Alzheimer’s risk that genetic counselors don’t like to talk about. It’s not that they’re hiding the ...

At first glance, autism and OCD appear to have little in common. Yet clinicians and researchers have found an overlap ...

I believe we should be more aggressively pursuing precision health: ways to prevent disease and, when that isn’t possible, intercept and ...

An experimental compound that blocks two enzymes involved in gene expression improves social behavior in young mice, according to a ...

Hallucinogenic drugs, particularly lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin, are classified as Schedule 1, but scientists and physicians believe they ...

A man has been in remission from HIV for a year and a half, without drugs, after receiving a stem ...

Could a blood test help more lung cancer patients get drugs that are targeted to the genetic weaknesses of their ...

An analysis of four mouse models negates certain assumptions underlying the “signaling imbalance theory,” a popular hypothesis about autism’s origins ...

Following decades of unexplained deaths, mostly among young men, modern genetics and epidemiological detective work helped to establish a link ...

The Journal of Health Psychology has just published an extraordinary pair of papers that call for a new inquiry into a 30-year ...

So far this year, there have been six known cases of polio infection, in Afghanistan and Pakistan—two of the three countries left ...

For more than a decade now, two scientists–one in the U.S. and one in the Netherlands–have been trying to create ...