Biotech

The computational immunologist Purvesh Khatri embraces messy data as a way to capture the messiness of disease. As a result, he’s making elusive genomic discoveries

Mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria are unable to transmit viruses to humans—and could curb the spread of viral disease. Karen Hopkin reports.

The technique, tested in rodents, could yield better sensation and control of prosthetic limbs

Journalist Bonnie Rochman talks about her new Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux book, The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies Are Changing the Way We Have Kids—and the Kids We Have.

Scientists remain skeptical about an experimental approach to reverse brain death

Researchers have completed the first laboratory model of the human female reproductive cycle 

An RNA-based assay recently shown to work in monkeys could help triage victims of nuclear disasters 

Studies to treat vision loss and Parkinson's disease are the first to proceed under new regulations

Activity trackers accurately reckon heart rate—but they're way off in estimates of energy expenditure. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Diseases with these traits occur throughout the body

Two research teams cook up recipe to make long-sought cells in mice and people

Three bills under consideration in the state would make it easier to try unapproved therapies