“We’re at a transformative moment in the biomedical sciences,” says James Lu, an AI scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research Bioinformatics Institute (A*STAR BII) in Singapore.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to assess the use of the social constructs of race and ethnicity in biomedical research. The study will ...

Changes in the brain caused by Alzheimer's disease are associated with shortening of the telomeres -- the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes that shorten as cells age -- according to a new ...