Author: Megan Molteni

It calculates how more than two dozen genetic variants combine to increase or decrease your risk of developing Alzheimer's during your lifetime.

The world needs more kidneys. Here's how researchers are making artificial ones—in silicon.

All organisms operate on a 24-hour rhythm. This year's winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine discovered the molecular mechanisms that control it.

Researchers have been rushing to tease apart how Zika went from tepid to toxic, and they may have found the genetic tweak to blame.

The war of resistance might be lost, but computational modeling is helping doctors and scientists predict and contain new bacterial threats.

Scientists are publishing more studies and enrolling more clinical trials using Fitbit devices than any other wearable fitness tracker out there.

Big Ag is pouring a lot of money into figuring out how. But the science still has a long way to go.

This week, it showed off the latest results of that effort, turning up more than a dozen new mutations associated with the disease.

Hayley Anthony recently became one of the first people in the world to have tissue incised from the cavity of her abdomen and turned into a vagina.

As forest fires worsen amid global warming, having more eyes in the sky may be the best way to fight them.