Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute in Germany and Jennifer Doudna at the University of California, Berkeley, each received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their pioneering work in 2012 led to development of a technique called CRISPR.

Our ability to throw accurately and at speed is something that is unique to us and this ability helped influence our shoulder evolution.

Sleep is important as it enables us to integrate new information, associate and connect with past experiences, enabling insight and problem-solving.

Who is our COVID-19 Patient Zero? If one person infects three other people, and these three infect another three, after ten layers of transmission one person can infect 59,000 people.

The race to produce a vaccine for COVID-19 in the next 12-18 months is underway.

Halicin is the first new class of antibiotics to be discovered for decades.

Coronavirus COVID-19 infection: how it compares with flu and the role of self-hygiene.

Knee and hip Osteoarthritis is so common that they are the most replaced joints in our bodies. Can our occupation influence this process?

Want to know how a T-Rex is connected to osteoarthritis? This week we discuss the most common form of joint disease and its main causes.

COVID-19: Coronavirus, its relationship with MERS and SARS, and Mortality Rate.

How much sunlight we absorb really does matter as it promotes our Vitamin D status and reduces our blood pressure.

People who don't drink in Dry January ultimately drink less come August.

New research demonstrates there are five basic rules to increasing your life expectancy.

With more people signing up to Veganuary each year, it is worthwhile looking at the health benefits that a plant-based and dairy-free diet promotes even for just one month.

A positive attitude can make a real difference to our health and can help eliminate negative thought patterns.

Prostate Cancer Awareness Month provides a chance once again to highlight this key issue in men's health.

The Institute of Cancer Research estimates about 1 in 300 men in the UK have the same genetic errors that increase the risk of breast cancer in women, and in men these genetic errors present as prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men in the UK.

Our immune system keeps us healthy by fighting infection. Vaccines support this system by imitating infections.

Studies suggest that an average sneeze or cough can contain 100,000 contagious viral particles delivered into the air at speeds of up to 60-100 miles an hour!

As the Australian winter draws to a close, the flu season has been one of the most severe. The NHS is therefore prepared to vaccinate against several strains and up to 30 million people.