What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
A presidential bioethics commission lays out the framework for testing the anthrax vaccine in children.
Next-generation sequencing diagnostics are already being used, and patients are ready.
Disgruntled Nobel loser sues; brain trauma researchers search for biomarker of a chronic condition; receptor for novel coronavirus found; the rise of transcriptomics; and ethical oversight of participant-led research
Researchers identify the target protein of a recently discovered human coronavirus, shedding light on infection and possible interspecies spread.
Tailoring ethical oversight to participant-led research
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 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.