Autism in young children can easily be detected thanks to this app

An app-based approach can reach into underserved areas better and make it much easier to track an individual child's changes over time.

Experimental stem cell therapy gives disabled boy hope of hugging his parents

Seven-year-old Jay suffered brain damage due to a collapsed lung when he was born to Shilpa and Raj Shetty.

White and Asian American children had significantly lower rates of obesity than kids of other racial and ethnic groups.

Bonobos are generally less aggressive than chimps.

The stem cell treatment carried a higher risk of death, however, along with more serious side effects in the short-term.

There is no clear association between higher childhood blood lead levels and a greater risk for criminal behaviour.

Victims of sexual assault who experienced no other violence were no more likely to drop out than their peers who were not victims.

The advance takes a major step toward the end goal of repairing dead heart muscle in human patients, researchers said.

The system is capable of distributing encryption codes at megabit-per-second rates, five to 10 times faster than existing methods.

The results suggested that producing antibodies that directly target the defensive sugar shield is an important step in developing immunity.