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Prostate cancer is increasingly looking like an infectious disease, a new study shows, and may be sexually transmitted

The author of a new book on the antibiotic resistance crisis entreats scientific and lay communities for help in the quest for new weapons

Researchers replace defective mitochondrial genomes with healthy ones in monkey embryos—a technique that could be used to prevent children from inheriting a variety of incurable genetic diseases caused by defective mitochondrial genes.

The author of a new book on dinosaurs laments the demise of his discipline

A new book explores the scientific, and very human, drive to name and classify the organisms around us, but its conclusions about how best to do so miss the mark

A recent survey suggests the rift between scientists and the public is growing, but did its methodology sway the results?

A growth factor injected into adult mice spurs heart muscle cells to proliferate, helping heal heart attack damage

One researcher's reservations about Francis Collins's nomination as head of the agency

Researchers demonstrate a role for the brain's connective tissue in learning a new task

Musical MDs and instrument playing PhDs bring classical music to concert halls and hospital rooms

Experts agree that the select agent program needs changes, but there's little consensus on how to fix it

Cancer could kill 11 million Africans in 2020. What practical steps can we take now to prevent this from happening?