(Karetoria/Moment/Getty Images) Plastic pollution is seeping into the Earth, into wildlife, and into our bodies, and a new ...

The FDA is already under fire from lawmakers for recent delays and rejections of new drugs for rare diseases.

Currently there is no vaccine to prevent this virus and no specific antiviral therapy to treat HMPV, according to the CDC.

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Agreement Combines Tenaya’s Expertise in Identification and Validation ofGenetic Heart Disease Targets with Alnylam’s Ability to Deliver Transformational Therapeutics Tenaya to Receive Up to $10 ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

A 19-year-old Canadian man becomes the first human cured through prime gene editing after doctors corrected a rare genetic ...

As foot-and-mouth disease cases rise in South Africa, many are left wondering: Is it still safe to consume beef and red meat?

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

The Ebola virus, Cordyceps fungi, and even the stomach flu have helped inspire some of the most gruesome infectious diseases seen on the screen.

For too long, the promise of personalized therapies has been tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach for ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be game-changing for treating diseases like Alzheimer’s and dementia.