Do you know what the No. 1 cause of death is in America? According to the CDC, it's heart disease, which causes more deaths than cancer, accidents and COVID-19. In a 2025 American Heart Association ...

WASHINGTON—Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes, according to research published on Wednesday. Long ...

The Laredo Public Health Department is collaborating with the National Institute on Aging and the University of Texas at San Antonio on a research project examining the link between COVID-19 and ...

In his testimony this week, Kennedy claimed that infectious diseases receive far more federal funding than chronic diseases. Government records suggest the opposite.

Two new compounds may be able to treat retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited eye diseases that cause blindness. The compounds were identified using a virtual screening approach.

In pregnancies at risk of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN), amniocentesis is used to identify the fetus’s ...

Significant racial disparities persisted in genetic testing for inborn errors of immunity despite the removal of financial barriers, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and ...

The most complex engineering of human cell lines ever has been achieved by scientists, revealing that our genomes are more resilient to significant structural changes than was previously thought.

President Trump has inherited an evolving chemical and biological threat landscape, but not one he hasn’t encountered before.

TCE is a chemical that’s really good at dissolving things, which is why, for the past 30 years, it’s been primarily used as an industrial degreaser to dissolve substances off plastic, metals, and even ...

The gene therapy Casgevy, which will now be offered to some patients in England, could help people live disease-free, experts ...

Australian researchers have successfully introduced an improved version of Cas12a gene-editing enzyme in mice.