Every cell in your body is wrapped in a dense, invisible shell made of sugar molecules. Not table sugar, but complex chains ...

Malaria may have shaped early human life across Africa far earlier than once thought, steering where people could safely live ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan today announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind initiative combining frontier artificial intelligence and frontier biology to dramatically accelerate scientific ...

Knowing how human DNA changes over generations is essential to estimating genetic disease risks and understanding how we evolved. But some of the most changeable regions of our DNA have been ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia. By Carl Zimmer To prepare for future pandemics, scientists look to the past for clues.

In recent decades, scientists and public health experts have increasingly examined how human interactions with wildlife and ...

While most hantaviruses spread through contact with rodent feces, urine or saliva, officials confirm that the type on the cruise ship is Andes hantavirus, which is known to spread between people.

An asthma drug called formoterol may help reverse MASH-related liver damage, prompting new clinical trials after promising ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

India, May 24 -- A current rash of contagious (communicable) disease outbreaks worldwide is a healthcare nightmare that the ...