Treatments aim to bulk up failing hearts to restore their vigour – but can the field move on from past controversy?

A 53-year-old clinically dead man has become the first person to receive two kidneys and a whole liver from a genetically modified pig. The man’s organ function was sustained for almost five days with ...

Public-health researcher James Baguma has studied the interactions between bats, which can carry the virus, and people in the ...

The size of the outbreak in its initial days is worrying researchers. The next few weeks will determine how large it grows, ...

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a major funder of basic research — has restricted the flow of new research grants ...

Innocent people are frequently convicted of crimes on the basis of a witness’s false memories. Emerging science poses a ...

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe.

Artificial-intelligence tools are being touted as a means to conduct rapid reviews of scientific literature. At the ...

A powerful molecular clock calibrated using data on gene activity from thousands of individuals can predicts biological ...

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

What happens when AI companies produce models that they say the public can’t have — and how should users and governments ...