PROTEUS, a system designed to harness “directed evolution,” can speed the process up by years, or even decades.

The University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine said on Thursday that one of its 41 drugs under clinical trials for Hepatitis B may provide a cure ...

A large-scale study tracing human disease history back 37,000 years has identified harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites ...

Imagine your child develops a skin rash of red dots, runs a fever and feels tired. When things don’t improve within a few ...

This innovative software, CRISPRware, optimizes guide RNA design for genome editing, supporting research on genetic disorders ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have discovered how a key protein from the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), EBNA-LP, ...

A new genomic study reveals how human populations adapted ... and the Middle East, analyzed whole-genome sequences from ...

As summer kicks into full gear and people are spending more time outside, there's one thing on many people's minds—ticks.

As with so many calls previously about 9-year-old Delilah, Kelli Stanley braced for more uncertainty. But this time was different. This time, they finally had a name.

A new study maps infectious diseases across millennia and offers new insight into how human-animal interactions permanently transformed our health landscape.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans discovered that they could domesticate animals. So, as it were, they adopted animals like cows ...

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has ...