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In the usual cancer biopsy, a surgeon cuts out a piece of the patient’s tumor, but researchers in labs across ...

Exercise has had a Goldilocks problem, with experts debating just how much exercise is too little, too much or just ...

An influential European scientific body said on Wednesday that a group of pesticides believed to contribute to mass deaths of ...

Mansour Samadpour makes his way through the supermarket like a detective working a crime scene, slow, watchful, up one aisle ...

Some of the world’s finest scientists live in a former whaling village on the North Shore of Long Island, in ...

Fish oil is now the third most widely used dietary supplement in the United States, after vitamins and minerals, according ...

For the past year or so genetic scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have been ...

Scientists in Iceland have produced an unprecedented snapshot of a nation’s genetic makeup, discovering a host of previously unknown gene ...

Two  years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried ...

The issues surrounding G.M.O.s — genetically modified organisms — have never been simple. They became more complicated last week when ...

When humans began building shelters about 20,000 years ago, we unrolled a welcome mat for other species. Over the past ...

Neatly tilled fields have long been a hallmark of American agriculture and its farmers, by and large traditionalists who often ...

The Atacama Desert straddles the Andes Mountains, reaching into parts of Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Little rain falls on ...

A team of scientists has announced what could prove to be an enormous step forward in the fight against H.I.V ...

The human genome contains around 20,000 genes, that is, the stretches of DNA that encode proteins. But these genes account ...

Eugenie Clark, whose childhood rapture with fish in a New York City aquarium led to a life of scholarly adventure ...

Few industry debates are as heated these days as the one about labeling foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. And ...

Mark D. Shriver, a professor of anthropology and genetics at Penn State University and his colleagues have studied the ways ...

Police in Columbia, S.C., last month released a sketch of a possible suspect in a murder investigation. In what may ...

In this bite-size community near Key West, like so many other mosquito-plagued spots up and down the Florida Keys, residents ...

In 2010, scientists made a startling discovery about our past: About 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals interbred with the ancestors of ...

A month ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a ...

The expectation is that by uncovering the switches and genes they control, scientists can add depth to genetic findings like ...

Which chapter came first? Was it the genetic predilection for alcohol that created [Barbar's] lifestyle (pure chaos) and environment (streets, shelters, hotels)? ...

She is the closest thing to a hometown medical examiner that a city of eight million people could really expect ...

There has never been a scientific career quite like Mary-Claire King’s. Years ago, her doctoral thesis concluded that humans and ...

Re “ ‘Moonshot’ Medicine Will Let Us Down” (Op-Ed, Jan. 29): Michael J. Joyner asserts that precision medicine, an exciting ...

In the closing sentence of “The Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin marvels at the process of evolution, observing how “from ...