Scientist

During her time as a postdoc at the University of Basel in Switzerland, Sarah Shahmoradian decided to study the abnormal aggregates of ...

“Upload DNA data and know more about yourself,” promises Genomelink, anywhere from fitness-related attributes, such as longevity, pulmonary function, and job-related ...

The US Food and Drug Administration announced this month that a genetically modified cottonseed has been approved for human consumption ...

[I]t’s hard to study genetic sequences if they’re absent from the human reference genome, the product of the $2.7 billion ...

Chronically high blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes can damage tissues throughout the body, such as the nerves, eyes, ...

The female orgasm might have evolved as part of a biological mechanism to induce ovulation, according to findings published [September ...

Over the past several years, scientists have identified four genetic and molecular biomarkers that potentially predict human and animal longevity ...

A field experiment in Brazil that deployed genetically modified mosquitoes to control wild populations of the pest may be having ...

In 2008, pediatric cardiologist Deepak Srivastava treated a newborn baby who suffered from acute heart failure and had to be put on ...

I edited this month’s Critic at Large essay, a piece from Jackson Laboratory Scientific Director Charles Lee on the need to inject large-scale genomic ...

Most Neanderthal variants exist in only around 2 percent of modern people of non-African descent. But some archaic DNA is ...

Devastated by the death of his previous cat, Garlic, Huang [Yu] sought the services of biotechnology company Sinogene. The Beijing-based ...

As athletes experiment with drugs that can help give them an edge over their competition, they tweak their strategies to ...

Although still rare, affecting roughly 4 percent of adults over their lifetimes, according to the National Cancer Institute, colorectal cancer is becoming ...

Xenotransplantation experiments, generating human organs in animals for transplantation, are being conducted in sheep, pigs, and, recently, in nonhuman primates ...

Today’s data show that fecal transplants cure 80 percent to 90 percent of patients with recurrent C. diff infections—and doctors ...

[August 26], the Drug Enforcement Administration announced plans to create new regulations to expand scientific and medical research on marijuana ...

A new cryopreservation bank offers customers the chance to stash away their T cells for use in future cancer treatments ...

Vitamins and other dietary supplements are a $30 billion industry in the US. In addition to the bottles lining drugstore ...

On [August 20], the US Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of federally appointed independent experts that makes recommendations about ...

Scientists extracted a near-complete HIV-1 genome from a lymph node that had been preserved in wax for more than 50 ...

Teaming up with microbiologists and toxicologists from Rutgers and a pathologist from Oklahoma City, [researcher Sara] Campbell designed an experiment ...

If arranging cells in a particular formation was a good way to build cancer models that mimic what’s going on ...

An inducible, tumor-localized gene therapy has been tested for the first time in glioblastoma patients. The two-part approach, which involves ...

To create an individualized cancer vaccine, researchers must identify cancer-specific peptides called neoantigens, then use a cell-, protein-, or nucleic ...

Genetics hold far more sway over the mouse microbiome than transient environmental exposures, researchers reported July 26 in Applied and ...

At 27.9 °C, roughly equal numbers of female and male turtles will emerge from the nests of the Chinese pond ...

This past April, Mount Sinai oncologist Joshua Brody and his team announced a clinical trial that delivers immune modulators directly ...