"Patenting a gene is like patenting the water we drink and the air we breathe," says hospital's CEO.

Can a zombie apocalypse really happen? Hear what advice the experts at the American Chemical Society have to say on surviving the undead.

Research in fruit flies helps explain why

Niche Diagnostics Center of Excellence develops and manufactures products used worldwide in healthcare and other markets.

Understanding networks paramount to solving humankind's most challenging questions.

Scientists at EPFL have used a new imaging technique to monitor how glucose, our main energy source, is used in the body. Their findings may have great implications for diseases like diabetes.

Drawing blood and testing it is standard practice for many medical diagnostics. As a less painful alternative, scientists are developing skin patches that could one day replace the syringe. In the American Chemical Society journal Analytical Chemistry, one team reports they have designed and successfully tested, for the first time, a small skin patch that detected malaria proteins in live mice. It could someday be adapted for use in humans to diagnose other diseases, too.

Medicinal plant market goes untested for health hazards, according to a recent study published in journal Fungal Biology 

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria can share resources to cause chronic infections, Vanderbilt investigators have discovered. Like the individual members of a gang who might be relatively harmless alone, they turn deadly when they get together with their “friends.”

Researchers uncovered a new class of lipids in humans that is linked to reduced inflammation and improved blood sugar levels in diabetes.

Study Shows Feasibility of Treating Clostridium difficile Infection With Oral Administration of Frozen Encapsulated Fecal Material

$15 million Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment to action brings new resources to laboratories in sub-Saharan Africa.