Author: Megan Molteni

BioAge is trying to solve the problem of aging using advanced machine learning, a horde of lab mice, and the blood of 600 especially long-lived Estonians.

The research was conducted by Shoukhrat Mitalipov, the same guy who first cloned embryonic stem cells in humans. And came up with three-parent in-vitro fertilization.

$80 and a spit sample gets you a spot on one of Helix’s sequencing machines and a chunk of its cloud storage for your exome sequence.

Researchers believe the ballooning stem cell clinic industry is taking advantage of the federal repository's honor system. And patients will be the ones to pay, literally.

Last week, HHS abruptly canceled two years and $213 million worth of grants meant to aid teen pregnancy prevention, stunning public health researchers around the country.

The next release of sterile mosquitoes from MosquitoMate gets an assist from robotic sorters from the Google spin-off.

DNA could be a robust storage system for data, but never before have researchers stored information in a live organism.

Using smartphones to study public health requires reliable data—and researchers, even at well-connected universities like Stanford, still have a hard time getting their hands on the truly good stuff.

Posting scientific papers online, free to the public, seems like a great idea. But it's more complicated than it sounds.