Scientists are using genetic techniques to target diseases that affect how we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
Scientists are using genetic techniques to target diseases that affect how we see, hear, smell, taste, and feel.
Microbes affect weight loss; dozens of cancer-linked genes identified; a climate change scientists speaks out about personal attacks; isolation among elderly linked to death
Researchers identify a protein involved in the chromosomal disorder that could explain its characteristic learning deficits.
A presidential bioethics commission lays out the framework for testing the anthrax vaccine in children.
Next-generation sequencing diagnostics are already being used, and patients are ready.
Disgruntled Nobel loser sues; brain trauma researchers search for biomarker of a chronic condition; receptor for novel coronavirus found; the rise of transcriptomics; and ethical oversight of participant-led research
Researchers identify the target protein of a recently discovered human coronavirus, shedding light on infection and possible interspecies spread.
Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research
The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.
Although fully organized patient-run trials are still few and far between, patients are taking a more active role in clinical research.