Vaccine advisers chosen by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr vote to restrict one childhood vaccine, but delay their ...

Scientists used AI to write coherent viral genomes, using them to synthesize bacteriophages capable of killing resistant ...

Harvard University scored a victory in court two weeks ago, when a US judge ruled that its research grants should be ...

A Chinese firm has developed a massive artificial intelligence-powered platform to help manage the health of people with ...

None of the most widely used large language models (LLMs) that are rapidly upending how humanity is acquiring knowledge has ...

A micrograph showing the operation of a ‘conveyor belt’ of atom arrays. At each step, a fresh array is created at the bottom, ...

New Alzheimer’s drugs known as anti-amyloid therapies may slow disease progression—but they also carry serious risks, ...

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

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Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands of people in South America each year and getting worse. Brazil hopes to turn the ...

AlterEgo's neural-interface device is non-invasive and is being tested in people with multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic ...

A modified large language model called Delphi-2M analyses a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates ...