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Tests so far typically screen for risky patterns that may augment traditional types of clinical data.

Four products have already qualified for the regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT) designation that provides extra interactions with the agency, and sooner.

Genetically engineered "disco bacteria" sense and respond to different colors of light, creating both stunning art in the culture dish and new possibilities for synthetic biology.

Transcript abundance isn’t a reliable indicator of protein quantity, contrary to studies’ suggestions. 

Using brain scans and methylation markers, scientists develop ways to assess neurologic aging in humans.

Stylophora pistillata, a reef coral in the Northern Red Sea, thrived in simulated global-warming conditions.

The antibodies bind conserved viral parts, allowing them to neutralize all five Ebola types.

Sangamo Therapeutics will use zinc finger nucleases to introduce the gene for a missing clotting factor into the livers of men with hemophilia B.

Researchers identify transcription factors and environmental conditions necessary to reprogram human and mouse cells into cells that function like hematopoietic stem cells.

Researchers have constructed prosthetic female reproductive organs and implanted them in mice, some of which conceived and gave birth to live young.

Mouse experiments indicate that, contrary to observations in pregnant women, reactive oxygen species contribute to normal placental development.

Men have traditionally stolen the spotlight as scientific popularizers on TV, but women are making names for themselves in other formats.