Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. It has been a tough year for medicine. The U.S.

For many Asian Americans, a single cocktail can cause their faces to turn red. Known as the “Asian glow,” the condition can ...

Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former US president John F Kennedy, died after battling with acute myeloid ...

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

The new analysis study showed the delay may stem from genetic mutations that are present when a child is born – but activate ...

Using cancer’s own survival tricks against it, scientists may have found a new way to stay one step ahead of the disease.

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...

Despite a Trump administration push, there are few facilities offering the complex treatment in the rural areas where many ...

Researchers created a new kind of cancer drug that can grab a mutant protein while also carrying a second hit against the ...

Even as humpbacks rebound in number, their genomes reveal a loss of genetic diversity and a buildup of harmful mutations left ...