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[There’s a] growing world of boutique egg-freezing operations Instagrammable enough for their majority-millennial clientele. Take Trellis, a “women’s fertility studio,” ...

Olfaction remains a stubborn biological enigma. Scientists are still piecing together the basics of how we sense all those volatile ...

In October 2017, Graham Hatfull received an urgent email from across the pond. A microbiologist colleague ... was desperately looking ...

The UK Biobank is the single largest public genetic repository in the world... . But when David Hill, a statistical ...

Cancer cells develop resistance to the powerful chemicals deployed to destroy them. Even if cancer therapies kill most of the ...

[P]renatal whole-genome sequencing is [not] commercially available yet (though it’s definitely coming). But what is available is something called noninvasive ...

The scientist who entered [Room 3C16] saw 12 mysterious cardboard boxes on a crowded shelf in the far left corner ...

Crispr works in almost every animal that scientists have tried, from silkworms to monkeys, and in just about every cell ...

For nearly 60 years, hormonal contraceptives have freed women from their own biology. ... But no form of hormonal birth control—pill, patch, ...

Of all the big, world-remaking bets on the genome-editing tool known as Crispr, perhaps none is more tantalizing than its ...

Like a couple of heavyweight boxers who just keep slugging it out, the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the ...

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

[A] 32-year-old Greek woman, who’d previously undergone two operations for endometriosis and four unsuccessful cycles of IVF, once again returned ...

Here’s everything you need to know about the complex and sometimes controversial technology driving the gene-editing revolution. CRISPR evolved as ...

The latest step toward 3D-printed replacements of failed human parts comes from a team at UC San Diego. It has ...

In April [2018], a citizen scientist named Barbara Rae-Venter used a little-known genealogy website called GEDMatch to help investigators find a man ...

In June 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 11th edition of its International Classification of Diseases. It contained an ...

How do you handle the data of a scientist who violates all the norms of his field? … On the one hand, you ...

[Delaney Van Riper] was born with a rare genetic disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth, or CMT, which is slowly eroding her nerve cells’ ...

Early last spring, as flu season hit its peak, a woman checked into a Houston hospital with all the familiar ...

[W]ith precision medicine going mainstream and an explosion of apps piping genetic insights to your phone from just a few teaspoons of spit, ...

Laser focus leads to success, or so they say. Except it actually doesn’t. Researchers have found that rather than being ...

Since the invention of bypass machines in the 1950s, which can artificially maintain circulation and respiration, death has come to ...

NASA is now preparing for a human mission to Mars, but if our descendants ever shrug off their terrestrial bonds, ...

Long thought an impossible dream, the emerging field of palaeocolour is revolutionising our view of the prehistoric world, turning it from black-and-white ...

Previous research suggests robots are well received by children with autism spectrum disorders, and there's plenty of anecdotal stories of children ...

[A] yeast, a new variety of an organism so common that it’s used as one of the basic tools of ...

LIKE ANY SELF-RESPECTING farmer, Zachary Lippman was grumbling about the weather. Stout, with close-cropped hair and beard, Lippman was standing ...