Genetics

Researchers ID cells that transform into tissue that caps off plaque in atherosclerosis. They also believe they’ve found the gene responsible for the transformation.

Using in-game win probability techniques to predict the course of disease

When nerve cells’ power packs go wrong

Some groups of women with ovarian cancer are undertested for mutations that could guide clinical care.

Scientists have devised a blood-based test that accurately identified people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a new study reports.

Surprising and sometimes strange biology fuels the future of medicine

Plans, dreams and day-to-day work for a team studying the sense of touch

New Stanford medical school curriculum gives more flexibility and incentives for long-term research

A conversation with NIH director Francis Collins

Unstable stretches of DNA have served as hot spots for rapid, dramatic skeletal mutations the helped three-spined sticklebacks adapt to new environments.