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

Gene editing has moved from theory to bedside with a speed that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. A new wave of ...

A rare and startling birth has captured global attention after an Instagram user shared footage of a newborn kitten with two ...

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

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

Tatiana Schlossberg, a journalist and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died at 35 after a battle with cancer, ...

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

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 ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

Tanning bed users are known to have a higher risk of skin cancer, but for the first time researchers have found that young ...