UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson becomes the first major world leader to be hospitalized for COVID-19. Meanwhile, in the United States, the Surgeon General warns Americans to brace for the “hardest, ...

If the medical field wants to make serious progress on the Cancer Moonshot effort, it must expand its definition of personalized medicine and explore fresh approaches to cancer prevention, according ...

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, cancer researcher and author. What happens when a machine begins to read its own instruction manual? No, we’re not talking about Skynet (from the Terminator films) but rather ...

LONDON, (IANS) – A book by cancer physician and researcher Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee has been longlisted for the prestigious 50,000-pound Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in London. ‘The Song of ...

The very near future may hold remarkable advances in detection, prevention and treatment of cancers. But it will also hold social and cultural questions about those advances, as well as medical ones.

Be it in the abstract or the real, the specter of cancer haunts us all. Live long enough and this ever lurking disease will arrive in your life, it’s bags packed full of fear and hard questions to ...

What happens when a machine begins to read its own instruction manual? No, Iâ m not talking about Skynet (from the Terminator films) but rather humanityâ s rapidly increasing understanding of its ...

The field of genetics has seen exponential growth in recent years, and today may be on the verge of further breakthroughs that will radically change the way we function as a species. But to understand ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. “The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s ...

Announcing the birth of a new biotech company tends to follow a well-worn path: There’s a breathless press release explaining the technology, a list of moneyed investors buying into it, and a sizable ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Alex Ossola: The neurons in your brain, bacteria that causes strep throat and the ...

Emily Whitehead has a secret weapon: "My T-cells, part of my immune system, were trained to fight and kill my cancer." She was only six when she became the first child ever to receive ...