Heliospect Genomics, a U.S. startup, offers wealthy couples embryo screening for IQ and other traits, costing up to $50,000. This service r...

Many patients receiving those replies have no idea that they were written with the help of AI. In interviews, officials at several health s...

Earkick is one of hundreds of free apps that are being pitched to address a crisis in mental health among teens and young adults. Because t...

While the main goal of the language decoder is to help people who have the lost the ability to communicate, the US scientists acknowledged ...

The small percentage of people who avoided Covid-19 for 2 1/2 years are also finding out BA.5 has ways of slipping past their defenses.

While the virus is unpredictable, there are clear ways to protect yourself.

The report recommends that countries include funding for health security in their national budgets and review their performance in the curr...

A study found that driving behaviour and age could predict preclinical Alzheimer’s 88% of the time.

At around Rs 21,000 crore annually, cardiac medication forms the biggest therapy of drugs being bought by Indians today. A decade ago, it w...

Tens of thousands of Americans have volunteered to test COVID-19 vaccines, but only about half of them got the real thing during trials. No...

New York, Dec 30 (IANS) In a study that has the potential to improve the safety and accuracy of CRISPR applications, researchers have disco...

For the past decade, the Financial Times has been gathering judges from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to determine the year's best busines...

The technology, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), can be used in conjunction with in-vitro fertilization to test for genetic ...

However, bioethicists are getting increasingly concerned about recent research that is aimed at humanising animals in various ways.

The birth of Dolly the cloned sheep reminded bioethicist Leon Kass of William Blake's poem. Like all her fluffy predecessors, Dolly had the...

Genome pioneer J Craig Venter sports a small salt-and-pepper goatee , appropriate for someone claiming to have synthesised life from off-th...

Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 1,00,000 people outside the United States through their cellphone use and concluded that most...