Researchers seek to untangle the biological mechanisms linking resident microbes to our hearts—and to harness them therapeutically.

The decision may facilitate the agency cracking down more effectively on the unproven interventions these companies sell.

Stony coral tissue loss disease has already affected 80 percent of Florida’s coastal reef system. Now, a huge team of responders is working to slow its spread and prepare for future restoration efforts.

Although more evidence is needed to pin down a cause, researchers suspect that climate change is to blame.

The country’s health ministry and the World Health Organization rush to contain the new outbreak.

Researchers initially set out to investigate the relationship between copper homeostasis and the rare Menkes disease, but they also found links to Parkinson’s.

When the O’Neills learned that their daughter had Sanfilippo syndrome, a devastating rare disease, they created a GoFundMe campaign that raised $2 million in less than a year.

Crowdsourced data from Geni.com, which includes the actor Kevin Bacon, answers questions about marriage, migration, and more.

Researchers examine the effects on the fruit fly intestine of the protein responsible for Fragile X syndrome in humans.