Matthew Herper covers medical innovation — both its promise and its perils. It has been a tough year for medicine. The U.S.

A recent study finds that certain psychiatric disorders have considerable genetic overlap. But these genes aren’t the whole ...

A rare form of diabetes is emerging in the very first weeks of life, reshaping how doctors think about blood sugar disorders ...

This study offers important insight into the pathogenic basis of intragenic frameshift deletions in the carboxy-terminal domain of MECP2, which account for some Rett syndrome cases, yet similar ...

Are we reading our dog’s moods right? Does TV really comfort them when we’re away? These pet stories were catnip to us this ...

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring ...

Immune cells called B cells make antibodies that fight off invading bacteria, viruses and other foreign substances. During ...

A high-fat diet does more than overload the liver with fat. New research from MIT shows that prolonged exposure to fatty ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

From morning glories spiraling up fence posts to grape vines corkscrewing through arbors, twisted growth is a problem-solving ...

A new study published in Science Translational Medicine by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ...

The parents of 7-week-old Dhruvan Gopi were warned he might not survive the night as specialists converged around his crib at ...