The glia seem to make up part of a newly described sensory organ, the discoverers suggest.

The Northwestern University professor developed surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, an invaluable technique for detecting and identifying individual molecules.

Physical activity, independent of diet, shifts the composition of bacteria in the intestines, spurring researchers to search for species that might provide benefits akin to working out.

Stop Animal Exploitation Now issues a federal complaint against Johns Hopkins scientists, saying they messed up surgeries on nine animals.

The US Food and Drug Administration green lights a therapy for an extreme form of multidrug resistant TB.

Novartis, which bought the biotech firm in 2018, announced that the company’s top scientists have left, and news reports say it’s because they were involved in using manipulated data to get the gene therapy Zolgensma approved.

The results of an early trial in 31 brain cancer patients finds immune activity boosted in the tumor, and possibly longer survival.

In Niger, fewer kids die when health workers administer azithromycin routinely, perhaps because of a shift in the composition of gut microbes.

The fish’s undiscerning palate might make more of the lake habitable to the species than once thought, according to a new study.