disease

The unlikely coincidence of a local hospital record and a census led by a pioneering physician has enabled the first study charting rates of venereal...

New research shows the sudden oak death epidemic in California cannot now be stopped, but that its tremendous ecological and economic impacts could...

Azim Surani (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) discusses gene editing of the human germline.

As well as telling us more about earlier societies, the study of diseases in the past is proving an invaluable tool for modern science, as a new book...

Researchers discover that global sodium consumption is far higher than is healthy

A group of researchers from the UK have used inkjet printing technology to successfully print cells taken from the eye for the very first time.

Discovery could lead to new treatments for this genetic disorder.

A study of infant growth, tracking 2,400 babies from gestation to the age of two, has provided data of unique depth – and is already adding to our...