Innovative Team Science programmes at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences will tackle big questions about ageing, sex differences and health. The transdisciplinary teams will take a 360 view of ...

The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your tiniest, yet closest relatives.

From growing mini-organs to reviving the dodo and gene-editing embryos, boundaries between sci-fi and today's advances are ...

A multibillion-dollar project reveals critical moments during pregnancy, and even after birth, when the risk of neurological ...

In February 1953, two men walked into a pub in Cambridge and announced they had found "the secret of life". It was not an ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...