That strange ritual your great-grandmother swore by for staying healthy might have seemed like pure superstition, but it could have been based on legitimate medical principles that science didn’t ...

Human civilisation has advanced through centuries of innovation, observation, and experimentation. Certain discoveries have not only altered the course of science but also reshaped the way we live, ...

From robotic surgery performed 7,000 miles away to the first blood test to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, 2025 has been a ...

2025 is a very exciting year in terms of scientific breakthroughs, with many discoveries in space exploration, medicine, ...

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LaBonne is president of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Erastus Otis Haven professor of molecular biosciences at Northwestern University. Imagine a world without lifesaving medicines, ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies. The work by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr.

Deborah Fuller receives funding from the National Institutes Health. The personal views expressed here are those of the authors. Patrick Mitchell receives funding from the National Institutes of ...

An artificial-intelligence model trained on health-care records uses a person’s medical history to estimate whether and when any of more than 1,200 diseases might arise. Yonghui Wu is in the ...