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Blood tests that detect early cancer are coming to market. Could they lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment?

As more people start to opt for genetic carrier testing ahead of conception, doctors and parents-to-be are facing difficult ...

After months of putting off a blood draw, Austin hairdresser encouraged by client to get test for leukemia after months of ...

Scientists hope to prevent deaths from climate change, but heat and cold are more complicated than we thought.

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Can your bathroom double as a lab? At-home testing is reshaping how we learn about our bodies — and raising new questions.

Early research suggests a brain test may predict whether antidepressants will cause sexual dysfunction. There has never been a way to predict this effect.

Researchers have developed brain-on-a-chip technology that uses human tissue to model how the brain’s protective barrier ...

To learn more about what attracts mosquitoes, researchers turned to one of the world’s least hygienic and most chaotic ...

Groundbreaking new tests reveal patterns in our immune systems that can signal underlying disease and tell us how well we ...

To see whether the kidney could escape immediate rejection in a human, the team turned to a brain-dead recipient ... % of the waiting list and typically wait 2-4 years longer than do other blood types ...