DESIGN

Understanding how the wealth of genetic variation in the human genome impacts on disease could potentially transform healthcare, but...

Many powerful genome editing approaches must create breaks across both strands of the DNA double helix and rely on the cell’s own DNA...

There’s a clear pain point when it comes to drug discovery: Depending on which study you cite, creating an approved drug costs anywhere...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that it has successfully demonstrated the operation of a “rotating detonation...

A DISEASE OUTBREAK blossoms in China. Exactly how it emerges, far from the eyes of any surveilling scientist, no one can quite explain....

RÉUNION, A FRENCH island in the western Indian Ocean, is like a marshmallow hovering above the business end of a blowtorch. It sits above...

For millions of people, malaria creates a grim drumbeat of death, heartbreak, and loss: Every seven seconds, someone gets a case of...

A pill given early after infection with SARS-CoV-2 cuts in half a person’s risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, according to...

Water is essential for life on Earth and other planets, and scientists have found ample evidence of water in Mars' early history. But...