Oncologist Jane C. Wright and physics Nobel-winner Donald Glaser have died.
Oncologist Jane C. Wright and physics Nobel-winner Donald Glaser have died.
Although fully organized patient-run trials are still few and far between, patients are taking a more active role in clinical research.
Patients are sidestepping clinical research and using themselves as guinea pigs to test new treatments for fatal diseases. Will they hurt themselves, or science?
The first researcher to clone the gene for green fluorescent protein, but who was passed over for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is back in academic science.
Three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are offering $3 million to scientists demonstrating excellence in biology and medical research.
The first human trial of a treatment using induced pluripotent stem cells has received conditional approval from an institutional review board in Japan.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
Using a SMART card containing your genetic information and medical history, you could one day soon be diagnosed and treated for all kinds of diseases at an ATM-style kiosk.
As cholera first tore through the Europe in the mid-19th century, people tried anything to prevent the deadly disease. Then science stepped in.