21 August 2019
Ugandan inventor Brian Gitta created a way to test for malaria without a blood sample. He hopes it will help people get vital treatment faster, and enable us to track and ultimately beat the disease
26 June 2019
Digital doctors are already in use, but there are big questions about how they work. Are we ready for the rise of AI healthcare?
23 March 2018
Scientists have engineered 9 human cells to work as a simple, programmable computer. It could lead to implants that automatically detect and treat disease
30 January 2018
Tracking local diseases, like flu or the common cold, could be as easy as checking the weather with a new app called Doctors Report
25 January 2018
Despite treating 86 people since 2015, China's approach to CRISPR genome-editing in humans is basic and risky
14 September 2017
The systems designed to stop potentially risky research being published and used to make weapons of terror have “multiple shortcomings”, warns US report
23 August 2017
A project launched by tech firm IBM plans to analyse millions of bacterial genes, in an effort to understand what causes type 1 diabetes and Crohn's disease
