18:14 29 October 2009  | 3 comments

Cells that attack healthy tissue can have devastating consequences, but soon their formidable powers might be used for good

15:26 29 October 2009  | 11 comments

Six months ago, swine flu emerged as a massive threat to global health. It seemed to come out of nowhere, but our timeline explains how the origins of the H1N1 pandemic go back more than a century

THIS WEEK:  13:39 29 October 2009  | 2 comments

A genome-scanning firm has identified some quirky genetic variants, but what about the more serious hunt for genes that make us susceptible to disease?

UPFRONT:  13:25 29 October 2009  | 1 comment

By the time serious amounts of vaccine arrive in the US, it may be too late to stop most infections

UPFRONT:  11:30 28 October 2009  | 15 comments

The dirty hands of doctors and nurses act as germ "superspreaders" of everything from swine flu to hospital superbugs

09:00 28 October 2009  | 9 comments

An image sensor that can capture 1 million frames per second could film action too fast for conventional cameras – even the firing of brain cells

21:00 27 October 2009  | 27 comments

No reason to worry that vaccination will encourage girls to have more sex, suggests a survey of British teenagers

17:15 27 October 2009  | 8 comments

Amputees who feel the presence of a phantom limb can be trained to move it in impossible ways, which could allow new ways to ease phantom pain

16:37 27 October 2009  | 42 comments

Biotech giants have a green light to market crops genetically modified to produce the health-promoting oils, which are mostly got from fish at present

THIS WEEK:  15:13 27 October 2009

Modern offices may scorn the stuff, but paper is being used to build scaffolds for living model tumours and damaged hearts