From iPhone apps to cloud computing, everyday digital technologies are helping advance drug discovery, conduct clinical trials, and improve medical care.
From iPhone apps to cloud computing, everyday digital technologies are helping advance drug discovery, conduct clinical trials, and improve medical care.
Nanotechnology will offer doctors new ways to diagnose and treat patients, boosting efficiency and slashing costs.
In fewer than 15 years, nanomedicine has gone from fantasy to reality.
Eric Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on signal transduction in the nervous system, chats about the ever-changing field of neuroscience, funding, his students, and what he hopes science will accomplish.
Learn about the field’s first genetic circuits and read forecasts by George M. Church and J. Craig Venter of a future where man-made organisms pump out novel fuels, drugs, and therapies.
A handful of life science researchers will take home the United States' top science honor.
Diagnostic test strips that cost just pennies can test for liver damage, mold, and milk spoilage in the developing world.
How an Italian scientist doing Frankenstein-like experiments on dead frogs discovered that the body is powered by electrical impulses.
A German ethics council weighs in on the discussion about the use of human-animal chimeras in research.