Welcome to the 2025 annual review from the biology, medicine and health beat. Yet again, our world leading researchers are making an impact right around the world, so here’s a taste of some of our ...

In humans, only two genes have been reliably linked to gut bacteria: the lactase gene, which influences milk-digesting ...

KIFFIK Biomedical announced today the successful close of its Series A financing, completed ahead of schedule and ...

Northeastern University researchers have made a breakthrough drug discovery, developing the first synthetic endogenous ...

Liking, wanting, and craving cannabis come from genetics, stress vulnerability, and the desire to "treat" depression, anxiety ...

Mo Khalil is the Hok Lam and Kathleen Kam Wong Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at ...

Siddhartha Mukherjee, oncologist and author of “The Emperor of All Maladies,” asks: What if we change what a tumor can eat?

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers continued to make strides against cancer in 2025. Learn about some of ...

A UCR study finds just 6% of clinical trials used to approve new drugs in the U.S. reflect the country’s racial and ethnic ...

Before joining Science, Shahida served as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Business Development Officer at Butterfly Network, a company he helped take public in 2021, and where he led M&A, capital ...

Two scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have been selected for membership in the National Academy of Inventors ...

There’s some evidence that a new strain of the virus has been driving outbreaks in recent years. Called GII.17, it superseded ...