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In July, researchers eliminated HIV from the genome of a mouse using antiviral therapy and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. It was the first ...

Scientific teams from inside and outside the world of influenza research have been awarded funding to try to unlock mysteries ...

The federal government on [August 29] issued an advisory warning against marijuana use in teenagers and pregnant women, cautioning that ...

A sweeping new analysis adds to the evidence that many women who take hormone therapy during menopause are more likely ...

The nearly 200,000 Americans who have trusted federal scientists with their DNA, their medical records, and detailed behavioral surveys will ...

Lab mice endure a lot for science, but there’s often one (temporary) compensation: near-miraculous recovery from diseases that kill people ...

One-third of the clinical trials that led to new cancer drugs approved between 2008 and 2018 didn’t report on the ...

Seizing on the surging popularity of at-home DNA testing kits, top academic medical institutions are opening clinics that promise to ...

As cannabis researchers, we work in a field whose unknowns could positively or negatively affect the health of millions of ...

Every March, thousands of toxicologists from around the world gather for the Society of Toxicology’s annual meeting. Animal-based approaches once ...

As the threat of Lyme disease grows and fears surrounding it spread faster than the ticks that carry the infection, ...

[T]he polio campaign must push on across the finish line. Failure to do so could have dire consequences. ... For ...

As scientists uncover more details about the skin microbiome, small startups and beauty giants alike are exploring how the trillions ...

Although some of my patients are still working full time or traveling the world in their 70s and 80s, I ...

I opened the email from 23andMe, saying a report was ready for me to read. That click changed my life ...

The second-most shocking thing He Jiankui told the international genome editing summit in Hong Kong last November — right after ...

Some [clinical trials] plan to ask participants to pay $7,000 or so to enroll. Another wanted to ask for upward ...

People believe that a host of items including foods, medicines, beauty products, cigarettes, lighting, and even causes of injuries are ...

Biologist Jennifer Erwin of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, however, has no intention of babying her organoids: the world’s ...

When the Human Genome Project began in 1990, bioethicists feared that giving people the results of genetic tests would do ...

The current practice in most ICUs is to help families make a decision about whether to withdraw life support within ...

If we aggregated all the data from countless years of research, might we learn something new about ourselves, the diseases ...

For millions of Americans, including health professionals, the resurgence of measles is a confounding and frightening development. How can a ...

It’s no surprise to neurologists that some people experience convulsive seizures in the later stages of [Alzheimer’s] disease.  … But ...

Dr. Ronny Jackson, then the White House physician, gave Donald Trump a standard test to detect early signs of dementia ...

Nearly all of the largest manufacturers of wearable heart rate trackers rely on technology that could be less reliable for ...

Patients are about to be enrolled in the first study to test a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR inside the ...

For more than 50 years, the RNA remained hidden in a lymph node that had been snipped out of a ...