Doudna has received dozens of awards and honors, including the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which she shared with Emmanuelle Charpentier for their ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will review new clinical trials that involve sending ...

When skin cells are overwhelmed by UV damage, they die, triggering an immune response similar to wound healing. The redness, heat and pain of a sunburn, are signs of inflammation as immune cells rush ...

Wild polyploid strawberries hold clues to how plants evolve and adapt to harsh environments. In this study, scientists sequenced the genomes of two ...

A stage-four cancer diagnosis once sounded like the end of the road – after all, there is no stage five. When Joe Biden’s ...

Government promotes moderation in food to curb obesity, latest medical research, brain health, and dark pharma secrets.

A new study identifies two genes tied to brain size and synapse function, hidden in hard-to-sequence DNA repeats. Using ...

Scientists have used a precise form of gene editing, prime editing, to target the underlying mutations behind the rare neurological disorder, alternating hemiplegia of childhood.

Monoclonal antibodies are fundamental to modern biomedical research, therapeutic development, and diagnostic applications.

What makes the human brain distinctive? A new study published in Cell identifies two genes linked to human brain features and ...