Health & Medicine

  1. Genetics

    Microbes may reveal colon cancer mutations

    Certain microbial mixes are associated with particular DNA mutations in colon cancer, a new study suggests.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  2. Health & Medicine

    Cancer drug’s effectiveness overinflated in animal studies

    Claims about the cancer drug sunitinib are overblown because of poorly designed studies and negative results that were never published, a new analysis suggests.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Health & Medicine

    Cancer drug’s effectiveness overinflated in animal studies

    Claims about the cancer drug sunitinib are overblown because of poorly designed studies and negative results that were never published, a new analysis suggests.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  4. Health & Medicine

    Elephants’ cancer-protection secret may be in the genes

    An extra dose of cancer-fighting genes may be the secret to elephants’ long life spans.

    By Meghan Rosen
  5. Health & Medicine

    Why kids look funny when they run

    Kids’ short legs give them little time to push high off the ground, a constraint that leads to the jerky toddler trot.

    By Laura Sanders
  6. Health & Medicine

    Weight and sun exposure linked to onset of multiple sclerosis

    Among people with multiple sclerosis, those with higher body mass and lower adolescent sun exposure tended to be diagnosed with the disease at an earlier age, a new study suggests.

    By Sarah Schwartz
  7. Genetics

    Chemistry Nobel honors studies of DNA repair mechanisms

    Studies of DNA’s repair mechanisms have won Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

    By Sarah Schwartz and Meghan Rosen
  8. Health & Medicine

    Nobel medicine prize won for drugs from natural sources

    Nobel Prizes in medicine or physiology awarded for drugs that combat roundworms and malaria

    By Tina Hesman Saey and Laura Sanders
  9. Health & Medicine

    Therapies against roundworm, malaria parasites win medicine Nobel

    The 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology was awarded to Youyou Tu for her work in counteracting malaria, and to William Campbell and Satoshi Omura for work on treatments against roundworm parasites.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  10. Health & Medicine

    Fizzy bubbles carry drugs deep into wounds

    Bubble-powered drugs burrow into wounds to stop blood loss.

    By Meghan Rosen
  11. Health & Medicine

    Sperm protein may offer target for male contraceptive

    With the identification of a new sperm protein that helps sperm penetrate eggs, researchers may be closer to developing birth control pills for men.

    By Meghan Rosen
  12. Health & Medicine

    Sperm protein may offer target for male contraceptive

    With the identification of a new sperm protein that helps sperm penetrate eggs, researchers may be closer to developing birth control pills for men.

    By Meghan Rosen