Through their effects on metabolism and immunity, bacteria in the gut affect whether medications will be effective for a given patient.

From personalizing clinical practice to aiding biomedical research, individualized clinical trials have been heralded as a solution to several problems plaguing modern medicine. But they’ve yet to be widely adopted.  

From the remarkable speed of enzyme-catalyzed reactions to the workings of the human brain, numerous biological puzzles are now being explored for evidence of quantum effects.

Molecules produced by resident bacteria and their hosts may signal immune cells to attack the body’s own tissues.

Quieting immune attacks against pathogens and even providing nutrients to the invaders could improve health, according to a new line of research.

Machine learning can analyze photographs of cancer, tumor pathology slides, and genomes. Now, scientists are poised to integrate that information into cancer uber-models.

With the help of computer algorithms that excel at pattern recognition, researchers look for meaning in vast pictorial datasets.

Deep learning approaches in development by big players in the tech industry can be used by biologists to extract more information from the images they create.

Computer chips based on biological neurons may help simulate larger and more-complex brain models.