The AMA urged the public to stop using e-cigarettes until scientists have a better handle on the cause of 450 lung illnesses and at least five deaths.
Nobel discoveries on DNA repair are now fueling cancer drug research
A French teenager born with HIV and treated until age six is still free from infection 12 years after stopping treatments.
Drug manufacturers have begun amassing enormous troves of human DNA in a move that could transform medicine.
Startup NextCode Health will use gene-hunting tools to help a leading US hospital identify causes of rare diseases in children.
New study provides strong evidence that genetic differences play a major role in whether people die from the disease.
An analysis of the first Ebola cases helps draw a clearer picture of why some people survive, while others don't.
CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden has called it 'the most distressing' in a series of safety breaches.
A new way of evaluating tumours may soon help cancer patients identify the underlying genetic link to their disease.
Since MERS is an entirely new virus, there are no drugs to treat it and no vaccines capable of preventing its spread.
Genome pioneer J. Craig Venter to develop pig lungs that have been genetically altered to be compatible with humans.
A mutation responsible for a rare brain disorder that may have plagued Turkish families for centuries has been found.
The first experimental drug that fights both conventional and drug-resistant forms of TB is advancing to late-stage clinical testing.
Instead of just copying nature, the team did extensive tinkering with their chromosome, deleting unwanted genes.
The US scientist who created synthetic life in 2010 is now on a quest to treat age-related disease.
US scientists have discovered the basic mechanisms that allow HIV to wipe out the body's immune system and cause Aids.
The kind of science that helped Randy Schekman win the Nobel medicine prize might never have been funded if he had applied today.
The head of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says the current strain of bird flu cannot spark a pandemic in its current form.
CT scans of 137 mummies spanning four geographies and 4 000 years of history show that hardening of the arteries was commonplace.
Scientists say it will take a lot more research and much more sensitive diagnostics before this hope becomes a reality.
A baby girl in Mississippi who was born with HIV has been “cured” after very early treatment with standard drug therapy.
Researchers have begun testing drugs using a microchip lined with living cells that replicates many of the features of a human lung.
A Harvard-affiliated hospital is backing away from its decision to promote a paper linking the artificial sweetener aspartame and cancer.
Typically, genetic testing on newborns using conventional methods takes four to six weeks, long enough that the infant has either died or been sent home.
Designers of a device that can silence blowhards are among the winners of Ig Nobel prizes for the oddest and silliest real discoveries.