Tantalizing notions of long life, even immortality, have always been part of human consciousness, recurring in religion, literature, cinema, music, even consumer goods.The opening chapters of the Old ...

A growing number of economists are calling on governments to step up to ensure that the private sector’s pursuit of profit is ...

Life expectancy plummeted during the pandemic, with COVID-19 deaths, heart disease, and substance abuse playing major roles.

With the robust demand for personalized medicines and the growing adoption of digital technology, the precision medicine ...

Doctors harvest stem cells from the patient’s bone marrow and then send them off to a lab, where CRISPR is used to turn up the production of another, functional version of haemoglobin. This version is ...

Their healing powers seemed magical and indispensable. I fondly recall my grandmother, during the height of the neighborhood summer chickenpox outbreak, boiling chamomile and other skin-soothing herbs ...