The US government created a sham vaccination campaign to get DNA from the world’s top terrorist, threatening legitimate vaccination programs in the developing world.
The US government created a sham vaccination campaign to get DNA from the world’s top terrorist, threatening legitimate vaccination programs in the developing world.
A new study confirms that a “trial effect”—in which patients improve simply as a result of taking part in a drug study—once existed among HIV trial participants.
A peripheral nerve graft and treatment with an enzyme blocker restored breathing in partially paralyzed rats. The finding, published today (July 13) in Nature, suggests that a similar technique could one day be used to treat quadriplegics, who usuall
A University of Pennsylvania researcher claims his colleagues put their names on a Big Pharma-financed study of the anti-depressant Paxil, sight unseen.
A fully-functional tooth grown from stem cells is successfully implanted into a mouse.
Mice with miniature human livers more accurately test a drug’s toxic side effects.
Researchers find that an ingredient in common cough medicine improves multiple sclerosis symptoms in animal models.
A new strain of gonorrhea is resistant to all currently available antibiotics.
Gene expression analysis allows researchers to predict which patients will respond to flu vaccines and possibly expedite vaccine development.
The Royal Society's annual science extravaganza packs some interesting stuff into 5 days of love and research.