Three life-science prizes were awarded for advances in gene therapies. Opthalmologists Jean Bennett and Albert Maguire, and ...

A congressional hearing covered the rise of paper mills and the costs of open-access publishing — but there was little ...

Study in mice suggests that B cells help regulate muscle performance. Immune cells that help to fight off foreign invaders in ...

A team developing light-sensitive cancer drugs has won a US$2-million Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) prize for demonstrating a ...

Airborne genetic material can be used to paint a picture of ecosystem health, watch for invasive species and even identify ...

Researchers found sex differences in the activity of genes within cortical neurons (pictured) and other brain cells. Credit: ...

Many Democrats making the switch to politics are motivated by the Trump administration’s cuts to science — whereas energy and ...

Using artificial-intelligence to teach other models can be cheaper and faster than building them from scratch, but this ...

The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the US funding giant slashed its Graduate Research ...

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

The results suggest that women are primed for vulnerability to autoimmune diseases as they age, whereas men face increased ...