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The pharmaceutical firm is buying The Medicines Company, which recently devoted its efforts into developing the cholesterol-lowering medication.

In rare instances, the live virus in oral polio vaccines can mutate and become infectious, causing new outbreaks.

Many early-career clinical scientists receiving support through the NIH’s Loan Repayment Program have accepted disallowed industry funding, Science reveals.

Aedes aegypti infected with Wolbachia—which inhibit transmission of the dengue virus from insect to human—were deployed in Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Australia.

While short-term disruptions are manageable, scientists say, they are still concerned the unrest—and possible political ramifications—will affect the country’s research programs long-term.

Building simulations based on real genetic data, researchers conclude Gattaca-like tactics to choose the traits of future offspring would yield little payoff.

A clinical trial is underway to see if suspended animation, in which the body is cooled to 10–15 °Celsius, could slow patients’ decline and give doctors time to operate.

Genes that are exceptionally long or short are overrepresented in some published reports, which can lead to misinterpreted results.

A protein present in the ejaculate of male fruit flies activates long-term memory formation in the brains of their female partners.

A small study finds that patients who had half their brains removed to treat epilepsy have stronger neural networks than controls, perhaps explaining how they can retain language and cognition skills.

Researchers analyzed more than 800 species.

This newly described behavior occurs spontaneously, but can be modulated by food availability, temperature, and the size of the chambers.