Rob Stein

NEAR BLACKSBURG, Va. — It's a crisp, clear winter day as I drive down a winding two-lane road throug...

Benjamin Franklin famously wrote: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and...

For the first time, gene therapy is showing promise for treating inherited deafness, researchers rep...

Four years ago, Victoria Gray was lying in a hospital bed, exhausted by a lifetime with sickle cell ...

When Diana and Paul Zucknick built their dream house on a quiet street in Austin, Texas, more than a...

In a landmark decision, the Food and Drug Administration Friday approved the first gene-editing trea...

For the first time, researchers have produced evidence that gene-editing can cut high cholesterol, a...

The Food and Drug Administration may soon approve a therapy that uses the gene-editing technique cal...

Katsuhiko Hayashi pulls a clear plastic dish from an incubator and slides it under a microscope. "Yo...

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new round of vaccines against COVID-19. The vaccines fro...

The latest lab data suggests that a new COVID-19 booster will protect against a worrisome variant. (...

Scientists have produced the first data indicating that a variant that has raised alarm is unlikely ...

This summer, I traveled to Montreal to do one of my favorite things: Listen to live music. For three...

Yet another summer COVID-19 wave may have started in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease ...

BERKELEY, CALIF. — On a cloudy day on a gritty side street near the shore of San Francisco Bay, a yo...

In an eagerly anticipated decision, the Food and Drug Administration Thursday approved the first gen...

It's a Wednesday morning at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in downtown...

For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing women to get birth cont...

In the latest sign that the pandemic is receding, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fri...

When Chase Finazzo was just a few years old, his parents noticed Chase was pretty clumsy. But they d...

Federal health officials have greenlighted a second shot of the omicron booster for some older adult...

If you've gotten COVID more than once, as many people have, you may be wondering if your risk for su...

Victoria Gray was wandering through the British Museum in London last week when she spotted a small ...

It's still far too premature to try to use powerful new technologies to edit genes that can be passe...

Hundreds of scientists, doctors, bioethicists, patients, and others started gathering in London Mond...

In another sign of the changing state of the pandemic, an invaluable source of information about the...

This winter's COVID-19 surge in the U.S. appears to be fading without hitting nearly as hard as many...

Updated 12:55 p.m. ET The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued proposed guidance Friday to ease ...

The Food and Drug Administration is considering a major shift in the nation's COVID-19 vaccine strat...

If you're like most Americans, someone in your family or social circle is sick right now with COVID,...