Parkinson's is a progressive and debilitating disease of the brain that eventually compromises patients' ability to walk and even to talk.

Researchers have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial components to construct biohybrid microrobots.

Research has generated promising results for a new blocking antibody therapy that targets a protein critical to cancer's ability to spread.

For most children and even some adults, swallowing pills or tablets is difficult. A drug-delivering gel makes medicine easier to swallow.

A new study has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolution.

Researchers have found that a drug first developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and sickle cell disease reduces obesity.

New research provides evidence that prunes are a prebiotic food that reverses bone loss and helps restore bone health.

Understanding the relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and the brain’s complex network of vessels and veins is a challenge for science.

A new tool can quickly and reliably identify the presence of Ebola in blood samples and potentially could be developed into a rapid test.

Researchers have developed an oral medication to treat diabetes while simultaneously reversing the inflammatory effects of the disease.

MIT researchers have produced smart textiles that snugly conform to the body so they can sense the wearer’s posture and motions.

Brain scans of people taken while they performed various tasks accurately predicted whether they were politically conservative or liberal.

Researchers report that blood pressure and renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) are controlled by bioelectronic treatment.

Researchers found that the oral compound RG7834 stopped replication at a key step, making it impossible for the virus to infect liver cells.

When you're unwell, you can usually tell by looking at your face. It's usually not that simple when it comes to rare diseases.

For patients with a broken shin bone, a new generation of smart orthopaedic implants is being developed that can monitor healing progression

Researchers have made an important discovery that could lead to more effective treatments for the world’s 262 million asthma sufferers.

Researchers are challenging centuries-old beliefs about the fundamental science related to how mammals might regenerate damaged body parts.

Coming up with a creative idea requires us to draw on all our previous knowledge. But how does this happen in our mind and in our brain?

Ketamine, a well-known anesthetic used in smaller doses as a party drug, was hailed as a “new hope for depression” in a Time magazine story.