Scientists created the first synthetic cell from scratch that grows and replicates, offering hope for future cancer ...

Medical scientists are stricter while natural, social and humanities scientists are more permissive. The attitude to ethically problematic ways of conducting research differs clearly between ...

Cholesterol-reducing statin medications to lower the risk of heart attack and stroke; personalized cancer therapies; mRNA ...

Vaccines and scientists who work on them have been embroiled in controversy and subject to unfounded attacks over the past half-dozen years. The litany of attacks has included both debunked claims and ...

Katie James, Kara Terol and Hannah Sharma all received life-saving heart transplants before the age of 35 and all donated ...

A new global dataset of 239 human-infective RNA viruses shows how animal hosts, vector transmission, surveillance gaps, and viral traits shape the path from spillover to epidemic threat. Study: A ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye-called the cornea-can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The brain is not one ...

Amerindian communities across southern Venezuela have remained isolated from Western medicine. Villages are often only accessible by river or air, and villagers rely on hunting and fishing for food.