Let's face it—bats get a bad rap. Their links to disease outbreaks and their spooky association with vampires influence their ...

Your DNA contains millions of genetic variants that interact with each other in ways that affect whether diseases such as ...

One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it's usually to try to identify a disease-causing ...

As the world’s climate warms, parasite-carried wildlife diseases will move north, with animals in cold far-north and high-altitude regions expected to suffer the most dramatic increases, warns a study ...

Researchers are gaining insights into how external factors like air pollutants, diet and medications, and even microbes in ...

Big steps for humanity.

Objective Certain leading medical organisations are considering alternatives to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a predictor of the risk for non-communicable chronic disease (NCD) or death. Our objective ...

The new book "The Big One" describes lessons learned from past pandemics and how they might be applied to mitigate the dangers of future outbreaks.