Global demand for low-carbon baseload power has led to a resurgence of interest in nuclear energy. To unlock its potential, ...

Cancer genomics is the study of the totality of DNA sequence and gene expression differences between tumour cells and normal host cells. It aims to understand the genetic basis of tumour cell ...

Severe sunburn increases the risk of developing melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer. Credit: Olga Pankova/Getty. A ...

A cancer patient in France has become the first person known to contract the Shamonda virus, following an outbreak in ...

Money from the world’s increasingly prosperous technology entrepreneurs has been flooding into biomedical research. Is it ...

Diagnostic start-ups inch towards the goal of Holmes’s failed company, Theranos, to run a multitude of tests on drops of ...

Application of the high-precision technique is part of a clinical trial to treat a genetic disease that can cause liver and ...

From underwater speakers to growing super-corals, scientists battle to save reefs around the world.

Genomic surveillance can reveal viruses that targeted tests miss. But deciding which discoveries pose a threat requires ...