Northeastern University researchers used an original machine learning tool to predict how genetic mutations cause a rare ...

A man in Washington has been diagnosed with a strain of the bird flu that’s never been detected in humans before. The ...

Blood cancers such as leukemia are caused by genetic changes in the blood-forming stem cells of the bone marrow. Scientists ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what's possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a child ...

On November 13, Spain's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food imposed the confinement of all free-range poultry farms ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating cause of memory loss and cognitive decline, for which no curative treatment is ...

The United States may be heading into its second severe flu season in a row, driven by a mutated strain called subclade K ...

Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite ...

In 2021, a study found that redheads respond more effectively to opioid pain medications, requiring lower doses, also due to ...

Shares of Alector ALEC have plunged 62.5% in the past month. The massive decline in the stock price was primarily due to the failure of a late-stage study evaluating its investigational candidate, ...

As of 2024, over 40 million people in the world are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-a chronic, life-threatening infection that remains one of the leading global causes of death.