Singapore has unveiled a biological data center prototype that harnesses living human neurons for low-power computing.

Merck and Moderna’s success with a personalized cancer vaccine designed to keep melanoma at bay opens a ​new avenue of treatment that doctors hope will work against many types of tumors.

The FDA has approved Vitestro’s Aletta as the first standalone robotic device in the U.S. designed to draw blood without the need for hands-on human help.  | The FDA has approved Vitestro’s Aletta as ...

Farmed chicken is thought to have increased the spread of Campylobacter, the most common bacterial cause of diarrhoea worldwide

A staging system based on how big a role AI has in patient care can help to identify who is responsible in cases in which care fails.

As the US sees its highest number of measles cases in decades and vaccination rates fall, researchers are developing drugs to help those who contract the virus or who are particularly vulnerable.

More than 3m people worldwide could be infected with HIV by the end of the decade following a steep fall in international aid funding, says UNAIDS.

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Evaluation of infants’ spontaneous motor activity with at-home wearables helps construct detailed growth charts of early gross motor development.

AI still has the potential to do more than reduce corporate head counts. Watch out, Kendall Square.

A bacterial self-destruct mechanism has been repurposed as a potential therapy, selectively eliminating diseased cells — including tumour cells in mouse models of cancer.

True progress in artificial intelligence for health requires global guardrails, equitable data, and local capacity, according to a landmark framework launched by three United Nations agencies. Health leaders emphasise that true progress requires global guardrails, equitable data and local capacity, ensuring lower-income regions become co-creators of future innovations.

Nature Reviews Bioengineering, Published online: 13 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s44222-026-00474-ySurgical phantoms are artificial models of human tissues used for training, preoperative planning and device testing. Soft robotics is transforming these systems from passive anatomical replicas into dynamic, sensorized and multimodal systems, enabling more realistic surgical training and reducing reliance on animal models.

A cross-agency effort to harmonize 12 petabytes of biomedical data is laying the groundwork for AI-driven health research at the National Institutes of Health.

True progress in artificial intelligence for health requires global guardrails, equitable data, and local capacity, according to a landmark framework launched by three United Nations agencies. Health ...

The editors at Communications Biology now invite mechanistic studies that advance understanding of epigenetic regulation in development using in vivo systems, ...

A former FDA toxicologist has accused the agency of authorizing Zyn nicotine pouches without fully reviewing their safety

General purpose AI tools for science, such as Claude Science, promise to accelerate research. But which is right for you?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak is the fastest-growing on record, Africa CDC told its weekly briefing on Wednesday, with confirmed cases

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Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus

COMPASS is a pan-cancer foundation model that predicts immunotherapy response, across cancer types and treatments, from bulk tumor transcriptomes.

Fighting a Growing Fungal Threat; and How Scotland Treated Violence Like an Epidemic

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

The selective removal of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is important for cell health. Wang et al. show that ER clearance occurs in a macroautophagy (Atg) gene-independent manner during development, and identify Vap33, Osbp, and Start1 as regulators of ER clearance by lysosomes that are associated with cholesterol trafficking.

Leaders have displayed diverging reactions to remote work, with some supporting it and others resisting it. Surprisingly little research has examined …

This Innovation Report describes a local approach to a challenge facing medical schools more generally—how to effectively teach students to write notes thr

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Ebola patients are fleeing treatment centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo in search of food, underscoring how hunger has become one of the biggest obstacles to containing the virus.

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

If Gen Z is the first generation to grow up on the internet, boomers are the first to retire on it. Over a dozen told me how they're navigating it.

Nature - Reliance on artificial-intelligence tools degrades the abilities of physicians and software engineers, studies show.