Industry experts discuss the agency’s plans to make the drug approval process more transparent.

A public interest legal group has renewed the fight against DNA patenting.

Rising ocean acidity along the California coast may wreak havoc in the region’s oyster populations.

A neuroscientist tries to communicate with people in a vegetative state using brain imaging techniques.

For the first time, an oral cholera vaccine is used to control an active epidemic of the bacterial disease.

A parasitic mite helps spread a deadly virus among honey bee colonies.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

The new version of the diagnostic manual will do away with alcohol dependence and abuse categories in favor of a single “alcohol use disorder” diagnosis.

The regulatory agency will allow early-stage breast cancer patients to try experimental drugs previously reserved for those with advanced disease.

New PCR assay can detect more than 40 strains of H5N1 in a single go.

In 1929 and 1930, Johns Hopkins Medical School surgeon Warfield Firor carried out a series of experiments to determine how long blood could flow between animals with joined circulatory systems. Without using any anti-coagulants, Firor attempted to es

Early 20th century cross circulation experiments on dogs paved the way for milestones in human cardiac surgery.