May 18, 2021
George Church’s genes are making history again. The Harvard geneticist was one of the first people to ever have his genome sequenced, and now he is […]
March 23, 2021
“I’m the first person in my circle of family and friends to participate in a clinical trial.” Five years ago, Rhonda Long was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, […]
March 18, 2021
Three articles published in Nature describe studies of human prenatal development outside the body. The techniques employed in the studies may illuminate events that unfurl as […]
March 3, 2021
Retraction Watch readers may recall the name Jennifer Byrne, whose work as a scientific sleuth we first wrote about four years ago, and have followed ever since. In a new […]
December 28, 2020
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Dr. Amy Rapkiewicz, pathology department chair at NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island, looks […]
November 26, 2020
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in a breast cancer model was improved by a novel assay platform that uses a […]
October 7, 2020
STOCKHOLM/BERLIN (Reuters) – Two women scientists won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for creating genetic ‘scissors’ that can rewrite the code of life, […]
September 17, 2020
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed comparative performance data for […]
September 2, 2020
Scientists rushing to develop a coronavirus vaccine are running out of monkeys. That’s a big problem since drugs are usually tested on those primates before clinical […]