Author: Megan Molteni

Researchers are cooking up pill-sized sensors to detect medical molecules and possibly diagnose other gastrointestinal ailments.

The consumer genetics company is opening its data set to some researchers—and recruiting others to make that data set more robust in the first place.

After discovering that sperm could be coaxed into carrying chemotherapy drugs, researchers shifted their focus from inducing life to slaying reproductive cancer.

In a Facebook Live video, the CSO of one of the largest networks of stem-cell clinics in the country touted a new, unregulated treatment.

With enough data from the Chatterbaby app, researchers could mine irregularities in cry patterns for signals about hunger, pain—and maybe one day, autism.

Gene sequencers are pricey, so many researchers rent time on the machines. Now a startup called Meenta is simplifying the reservation process.

The All of Us precision health initiative could lead to medical breakthroughs—but the agency has to lock the doors tight to make sure sensitive data doesn't get hacked or leaked.

New companies are popping up to become the Amazons, Apples, and Intels of genome engineering.

More people get sick from mosquito, tick, and flea bites than ever before. Climate change is a culprit, yes. But there are other factors at play.

By helping them spend more time listening to patients and less time typing into electronic health records, voice assistants aim to keep physicians from getting burned out.