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Luna DNA, Nebula Genomics, and other “bio-brokers” will allow customers to make money by granting access to their genetic and personal information for research purposes.

The immunotherapy eliminated a woman’s metastatic lesions and kept her disease-free for two years.

Merck’s Keytruda extended the lives of lung cancer patients by several months and appeared to stop the progression of advanced melanoma.  

The move by Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center follows an investigative news report detailing surgical errors and poor research practices.

The paper’s authors say bias may nevertheless be present in other steps of the granting process.

The test can pick up several types of cancer, including pancreatic and ovarian, years before symptoms appear.

The first human experiment with neural precursor cells implanted to treat chronic spinal cord injury suggests the procedure is safe, and hints at a small benefit.  

Divergent human lineages of North America intermingled before setting off to establish populations of Central and South America.  

By observing the activity of a protein complex in real time, researchers have uncovered new evidence for a long-standing theory.

By combining experimental data with computer models, researchers were able to predict a pathogen’s evolution toward more virulence.

During the last ice age, there wasn’t much plant matter to eat on northern steppes, but herbivorous woolly mammoths were abundant. How did they survive?

The University of Michigan neuroscientist has developed therapies for patients with PTSD and laboratory models to understand its basis.