In the first known case of a cross-species outbreak of an adenovirus, researchers identify a virus that infected both monkeys and humans.
In the first known case of a cross-species outbreak of an adenovirus, researchers identify a virus that infected both monkeys and humans.
The number of human embryonic stem cells approved for federal funding continues to grow.
A method for precise gene editing is able to change disease-causing point mutations in human stem cell DNA.
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 colorful toad that has been missing for 87 years is discovered in Malaysia.
The hike is attributed to expanded use of genetically modified and mutant animals.
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.
Eleanor Simpson, a neuroscientist at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses a recent Nature paper that probes dopamine's role in helping animals make positive associations to stimuli that herald pleasurable outcomes (such as the handing out of food).
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.