Medical Technology

Analyzing individual cancer cells could reveal the answer to some of the disease’s most enduring mysteries

"Positive-to-positive" transplants would create new pool of donors for infected patients

As a platform to help with decision-making, Watson has a lot to learn—which is exactly the point

Reactivating a dormant gene enhances mice’s healing abilities

Researchers believe at least six key things have to go wrong for most tumors to develop

Digital medical records can easily go awry, but nobody is tracking the errors

Researchers have uncovered processes that make cancer even more complicated than they thought it was

New actions aim to help the agency respond to quality control issues that force drugmakers to discard medicines

An invention by physicists could make testing for bacteria as simple as slapping a sticker on food and waving a handheld scanner. Wayt Gibbs reports

Walking through Gordon Fishell’s lab now, you would never know that much of his research was swept away by last year’s superstorm. Other scientists at New York University’s medical center cannot say the same

Researchers found a strategy of paying living donors that would save the health system $340 over the lifetime of each patient