Biology

What you need to know about this genetic disease, explained by someone who knows it inside and out.

The FDA banned triclosan from hand soap, but new research shows that it can supercharge old antibiotics.

In a lab in Arizona, dozens of bodies sit preserved at 320 degrees below zero. They each paid $200,000 to be frozen...

The experiment breaks the conventional wisdom about what memories are made of.

The world discovered phages before antibiotics, but these lowly sewer viruses are getting renewed attention in the...

Alcor CEO Max More knows most people don't believe cryonics will work. But More thinks we can't afford not to try.

Twenty people die every day in the U.S. waiting for an organ transplant. There aren’t enough organs for the 100,000...

The flu is a really tough target. The virus evolves far too fast to really pin it down. If only they could slow it...

is pretty gross. We do everything we can to avoid it. But thanks to the burgeoning field of fecal transplants,...

Yale researcher Ben Chan spends a lot of time doing what most people would avoid at all costs. He travels the world...