Medical Technology

Food and drug regulatory agencies might consideradopting sequencing techniques to screen herbal medicines for ingredientsthat are toxic or derived from vulnerable organisms, a geneticist says

The moviemaker's expedition to the Mariana Trench could usher in a new type of undersea lab that extracts chemical compounds from microorganisms living in the deepest parts of the sea

Women who wish to conceive later in life have benefited from improvements in reproductive technology. But even those have expiration dates. Katherine Harmon reports

Ultrathin carbon sheets can shield fluids from the vacuum conditions inside electron microscopes, offering an innovative way of viewing specimens in solution

The parasite that causes malaria is becoming immune to artemisinin, the most effective drug. Pinpointing the resistance genes could offer a way to beat back the disease

Few diseases have strong enough genetic components to make sequencing a solid way to assess individual risk

The 200-terabyte 1,000 Genomes Project data will now be stored for free, although analytic computing resources will come at a price

While the superpowers were busy threatening to destroy each other with nuclear weapons, Albert B. Sabin turned to a surprising ally to test his new oral polio vaccine—a Soviet scientist

As the number of cases of the paralytic disease fall, world health officials have to grapple with a vexing problem: a component of the most widely used polio vaccine now causes more disease than the virus it is supposed to fight

Proprioceptive feedback system

Bacteria are exquisite living machines that could one day deliver medicine to cells in the human body, if scientists overcome the numerous obstacles