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Over the past few years the discipline has evolved in significant ways.

Tragic side effects plagued the field’s early years, but researchers are finding ways to minimize the risks.

The field is beginning to fulfill its potential. These therapies offer a glimpse of what’s to come.

Researchers, practitioners and patients must balance the discipline's promise with its reality.

The pharmaceutical industry is in a drug-discovery slump. How much can AI help?

Successfully applying AI to biomedicine requires innovators trained in contrasting cultures.

Deep-learning algorithms are peering into MRIs and x-rays with unmatched vision, but who is to blame when they make a mistake?

Digitized patient charts were supposed to revolutionize medical practice. Artificial intelligence could help unlock their potential.

After false starts, drugs that manipulate the code of life are finally changing lives.

DNA-based medicine needs more diversity to avoid harmful bias. One big research project is fixing that.

We now have the ability to screen for thousands of genetic diseases in newborns. That may not always be the healthy thing to do.

DNA or RNA molecules, arranged into spherical shapes, can attack brain cancers and other illnesses that evade conventional drug design.

Untangling the origins of organisms will require experiments at the tiniest scales and observations at the vastest.

The reach of the scientific method is constrained by the limitations of our tools and the intrinsic impenetrability of some of nature’s deepest questions.

An elusive substance that permeates the universe exerts many detectable gravitational influences yet eludes direct detection.

By reaching down into the quantum world, scientists are hoping to gain more control over matter and energy.

Scientists are beginning to unravel a mystery that has long vexed philosophers.