The story behind the development of immune checkpoint inhibitors, fulfilling the promise of cancer immunotherapy ...

Bird flu, or H5N1 avian influenza, has been circulating across North America since 2022, infecting birds, livestock, wildlife, pets, and humans. Despite 70 documented human cases, there are no known ...

In December 2023, through the development efforts of CRISPR Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, their decades-long endeavor reached fruition in the form of a new treatment, CASGEVY, approved by ...

The ubiquity of love across societies and its endurance across millennia is likely rooted in something basic and primal to human nature, Schwartz and Olds say. While it’s unclear whether being head ...

At a glance: Study explains long-standing question of why Huntington’s disease symptoms typically do not appear until midlife even though patients are born with the mutation. Analyses reveal that the ...

Breast cancer rates rose by 1 percent per year from 2012-2021 for all U.S. women combined, with steeper increases for women under 50 and Asian American and Pacific Islander women, according to the ...

New AI model identifies possible therapies from existing medicines for thousands of diseases, including rare ones with no current treatments. The AI tool generates new insights on its own, applies ...

At a glance: New study of nearly 2,000 former NFL players found that 34 percent think they have CTE, a condition it is not yet possible to confirm in a living person. Former players who believed they ...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender minority people (LGBTQ+), are at greater risk of dying by suicide, of cardiovascular disease, and of a cascading list of other ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have designed a versatile, ChatGPT-like AI model capable of performing an array of diagnostic tasks across multiple forms of cancers. The new AI system, described ...

On Aug. 14, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the latest mpox outbreak in Africa a public health emergency of international concern. While the virus is not new, its behavior warrants ...

At a glance: In a marked advance over current AI models, the new approach captures how proteins act not in isolation but in their cellular and tissue environments. The model illuminates how ...