Modern medicine
The shutdown of a Canadian nuclear reactor creates a greater than 50 percent chance of a shortage of an important testing marker.
A Japanese cell biologist will win the award for physiology or medicine for explaining autophagy, or "self-eating."
Getting enough shut-eye, say experts, could give athletes that elusive edge in competition.
Improvements in the technology of transplantation have opened up the donation of kidneys to significantly more living donors.
Will the blood you donate today be effective in six weeks?
What happens at high altitude may help patients in the ICU.
Tiny tubes deliver functioning genes to cells with broken copies.
Updates and fun facts about this year's prize in physiology or medicine.
Bioengineers create new medical bandage for the sensitive skin of newborns and elderly patients.
Governments and manufacturers seek to avoid using enriched uranium.