Affordable diagnostic tests tackle the world’s most pressing health problems.

First, Aravinda Chakravarti drew a map of how scientists might unravel the genetics of complex disease. Then he blazed the trail.

After two headline successes, companies rush to develop “smart bomb” cancer drugs.

Biological resource centers are bigger and better than ever before, storing and distributing shared reagents, plasmids, and more.

Bionic fingers. Rewired nerves. Science fiction becomes reality as scientists attempt to give prosthetics a sense of touch.

Because of a lack of touch, upper-limb prosthetic users must look at their prosthetic hands the whole time they use them. Unfortunately, the prosthetics research community has put most of its efforts into making arms with wider ranges of motion and m

Critics point out that cell therapy has yet to top existing treatments. Biotech companies are setting out to change that—and prove that the technology can revolutionize medicine.

Using tiny lipid discs, scientists resolve contradictory evidence about how many proteins are required for neurotransmitter release.

A postdoc at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is found guilty of falsifying his findings in a lung cancer study.

Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University. Age: 30

The anti-HIV antibodies from mothers carrying HIV could be used to help develop a vaccine.

A 30-year-old technique to record the electrical activity of neurons gets a robotic makeover.