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Two coauthors of a new study discuss their findings about nearly 170 facilities in the southwestern US selling unproven therapies—and what should be done about them.

Bleaching killed 34 percent of the island’s reefs between 2013 and 2017, a study finds.

The successful delivery spells hope for the related northern white rhino, which is facing extinction.

The authors of a new study find no evidence for bacteria in the placenta, but others in the field question their interpretation of the data.

The proof-of-concept study could be a step toward better assisted communication devices for paralyzed people.

About a quarter of lymphoma patients eligible for the cancer treatments are opting for experimental—and free—options instead.

To see if the spiky fish shares signaling pathways found in other organisms, scientists scooped up specimens during a mating frenzy on the shores of Japan.

The latest restrictions require scientists to submit more comprehensive grant applications, and those applications will go through more stringent ethics reviews.

A study estimates that 0.15 percent of genetics articles are retracted, most commonly for duplication and plagiarism.

A trial is recruiting patients to test the gene-editing technology’s ability to treat an inherited form of blindness caused by a mutation in the CEP290 gene.

Recent reports of babies born with opioid withdrawal symptoms after their mothers used kratom during pregnancy have generated much concern about the medicinal herb.

Unlike biotech tools adapted from nature, the invention was entirely conceived by humans and represents one of the few proteins made from scratch in the lab.