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Old Skeletons Hold DNA Clues to TB

Scientists hope to learn tuberculosis's genetic secrets by examining TB genes in old bones and comparing them with other strains from the past and present. Katherine Harmon reports

How Do Vaccines Work?

House Call Doctor: Quick and Dirty Tips for Taking Charge of Your Health

Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy [Slide Show]

Medical imaging offers new ways to examine the deceased

Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy [Slide Show]

Medical imaging offers new ways to examine the deceased

Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy

Medical imaging offers new ways to examine the deceased

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent

October 2012 Briefing Memo

Herbal Menopause Supplement Often Contains Other Species, DNA Bar Coding Reveals

Genetic analyses found herbs similar to black cohosh were being sold in commercial preparations of the popular remedy, possibly explaining mixed results and casting doubt on supplement label accuracy...

A Call for Safer Drugs for Kids

Many of the medicines children take have never been proved safe and effective for them. A new law will help change that

Tablet Devices Keep Austistic People Working

People with autism were kept on task at work with an iPod Touch featuring various checklist and prompting apps. Larry Greenemeier reports

Voices of ENCODE [Video]

ENCODE's lead coordinator, Ewan Birney, and Nature editor Magdalena Skipper talk about the challenges of managing a colossal genetics project and what we've learnt about the human genome...

"Junk" DNA Holds Clues to Common Diseases

With the new annotation of the human genome, researchers are finding that most of the code between genes is controlling crucial functions for life and health

Obama and Romney Tackle 14 Top Science Questions

Find out where the candidates stand on climate change, research, energy, space and more

A TB Test You Can Do at Home

A new fluorescent probe can detect tuberculosis bacteria using a homemade light box and a mobile-phone camera

New Answers for Cancer

The newest targeted therapies are helping doctors to tailor increasingly effective treatments to individual patients

Civil War Innovations

Secession and Science; Warships; Underwater Warfare; Cannons; Communications and Military Intelligence; Medicine and Health

The Hidden Mind

We have long wondered how the conscious mind comes to be. Greater understanding of brain function ought to provide an eventual solution.

Why Are Trace Chemicals Showing Up in Umbilical Cord Blood?

How Technology Shaped the Civil War

Secession not only spurred rapid improvements in warships and weapons, but also led to advances in communications and medicine

New DNA Analysis Shows Ancient Humans Interbred with Denisovans

A new high-coverage DNA sequencing method reconstructs the full genome of Denisovans--relatives to both Neandertals and humans--from genetic fragments in a single finger bone